I’ve been playing around with Google’s new Street View application in Google Maps this morning and noticed that the entire city of Chicago is now available to see at street level view. So, I entered the address where I grew up on Spaulding Avenue and clicked on the street view button. Voila! My old neighborhood … Read more
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 attractive? … Read more
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 … Read more
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, I live … Read more
This afternoon I learned that the restaurant recently featured on the Today Show as having a $25,000 dessert (the world’s most expensive) 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 … Read more
