Hole In The Donut Travels

On my recent trip around the world I made a “Best Of” list as I traveled, whimsically thinking that if I could combine these qualities from other countries with what I believe to be the “Best Of” the USA (technology, music, entertainment), it would be my own personal Shangri-La. Australia had the best yogurt I [...]

There’s a new book on the market, “Going Gray:What I Learned about Beauty, Sex, Work, Motherhood, Authenticity, and Everything Else That Really Matters,” by Anne Kreamer. At 49, Kreamer made the decision to stop coloring her hair and set out to discover the practical implications of going gray. Would men still find her [...]

On Thanksgiving Day I was sitting at the dinner table, trying to find room in my overstuffed stomach for the apple and pumpkin pies that our hostess was carving, when the subject turned to computers and technology. That led us to talk about a recent seminar sponsored by the NY Times where it was proposed [...]

Thanksgiving Day always reminds me of the old Bill Cosby TV show – all the Thanksgiving episodes where the family sat around the big table and one-by-one, shared aloud the things for which they were grateful. For a few years that became our tradition as well, and I always liked it. Of course, [...]

This afternoon I learned that the restaurant recently featured on the Today Show as having the world’s most expensive dessert was forced to close due to a pest infestation. Serendipity 3 on the Upper East Side failed its second consecutive health inspection in a month after health officials found a live mouse, mouse droppings in [...]

You may have noticed a few “less-than-subtle” changes to my blog over the past couple of months, so I thought I’d explain what that’s all about. When I returned from my round-the-world trip, I discovered the software that drives my blog (WordPress) had a new version available, so I downloaded and installed it. [...]

This sculpture, titled “Pamplona 2006,” is also part of the collection being displayed along Sarasota’s Bayfront during the city’s annual Season of Sculpture. Sculptor DeWitt Godfrey uses unexpected materials – here, steel cylinders – that blur the readings of his works, “slipping freely between sculptures and industrial artifact.” While adults may have difficulty interpreting [...]

I walked along the Bayfront in downtown Sarasota last night to see all the artwork included in Sarasota’s Season of Sculpture. Some are pretty weird. Some are terrific. Here’s one of the terrific ones, which I just happened to catch as the quarter moon rose above it:

My friend Julia emailed this to me today. some of you may have seen it, but I laughed so hard when I read it I thought it was too good not to share:
The Christmas Pageant
My husband and I had been happily married (most of the time) for five years but hadn’t been blessed with [...]

The Japanese are so far ahead of us in electronics that it’s positively scary. These two-dimensional barcodes, called QR Codes, are their newest twist on futuristic technology. Developed in 1994, the codes were originally developed to track parts in vehicle manufacturing. Today they appear in magazine ads, flyers, signs, buses, business [...]