My view at sunset, looking at the Manhattan skylineUsually August is the slow month of the year and this year is no exception. I've been enjoying the more relaxed pace and trying to get caught up with projects that will get pushed to the si…
The view from McLoons Lobster ShackMaine was wonderful. I have come to expect that my visits will be very special, but this year's visit was idyllic. Yes, idyllic. Except for one rainy day, when the activity was seeing The Odyssey, I enjoye…
At least it doesn't look it. One of my junior high memories is reading The Odyssey, or at least having it assigned to our class. I'm sure I read some of it, and also pretty sure that I didn't finish it. I vaguely remember the story and I th…
Welcome to the AlamoYes, there's an Alamo in New York City and you're looking at it. This is the Alamo aka the East Village Cube at Astor Place. This is one of my favorite sculptures, eighteen hundred pounds of steel that revolves. It's the…
Today I'm feeling the Spirit of '76Today I join the Spirit of '76 Club, though I won't officially turn 76 until 10:26 P.M. It's overwhelming -- neither of my parents made it to 76 -- and lots of fun, and I am very grateful to join this club…
We don't often have celebrity news in Buttercupland. Not that we're (totally) uninterested, but there are a million other places where that's all they write about. But in October 2023, almost three years ago, I did a post predicting that Ta…
Probably the most elegant site where I will ever eat lunch, the courtyard of Alnwick CastleThe magnificent Alnwick Castle -- the site of Hogwarts in the first two Harry Potter movies -- was not one of the places I expected to visit during m…
The best view in Edinburgh, Edinburgh CastleI've been home from one of the best trips ever to England, Ireland and Scotland for four days. I'm finally able to stay awake beyond 8:00 PM (actually 1 am in Edinburgh. Jet lag has been rough com…
One of my favorite places to walk is in my neighborhoodWelcome to June, the month where we go from spring to summer and it's time for the joys of long evenings. I'll be spending most of June in England/Ireland and Scotland and I will experi…
My most recent theater afternoon, Fallen Angels, with Kelli O'Hara and Rose ByrneMy love of the theater started early. We didn't go often. We lived in Connecticut and tickets were pricy, when it was possible my mother and I would go to loca…
In May, 2023 I had the privilege of visiting the Cambridge (UK) American Cemetery and Memorial in Cambridge, England. I came home soon after and did a post very similar to this one. Now three years have passed and it's once again Memorial D…
Yesterday at Richard Tucker Park, near Lincoln CenterYesterday was a beautiful spring day. It was a little breezy, but warm enough to sit outside and enjoy people watching, iced coffee and conversation. It was the perfect start to the Memor…