A recent article in TimeOut (first forwarded to me by our son who has transplanted to Alexandria, Virginia) reports that Long Island is now one of the sexiest accents in the United States.It got me thinking about accents. I guess we all have accents. I grew up in a multi language home, and although I didn’t realize it, my parents spoke English with …
We were just seated in a restaurant at 20th Street and Tenth Avenue.“Hi Flo, hi Ben …. Steve, what are you doing in my neighborhood?” as he moved on to a nearby table.A familiar face but no quick recognition. After a while, we figured it out.Later, as he was leaving, he said, “Let Fred know that there was another “Gotham Sighting”.I hadn’t heard th …
Rudyard Kipling, is his famous poem “If” got it right.“If” is the most consequential word in our language, and in our lives.
As I was entering the Diner, I held the door open for four women who were leaving.As each passed me, they said “Thank you” and I responded “you’re welcome”. Until the last who said “No tip tonight” to which I did not respond.I wonder whether she was trying to be clever?
Following up on Fred's Blog last week.... A few weeks ago on Saturday night after a show, we found ourselves in the West Village and wanting the dessert that we had passed on at our earlier dinner.Outdoors at a sidewalk cafe. Enjoying the surprisingly warm evening and delicious pastries.The weather forecast was the farthest thing from our minds ….A …
As I glanced out the window a few days ago, I saw a bumblebee hopping from bud to bud in the morning sunshine. The first bumblebee I had seen this Spring…and I smiled in the secure understanding that Nature would keep us grounded.
We live in a world of acronyms and initialisms. Acronyms being the initials of words forming a grouping of letters that is pronounced as a word. Initialisms, on the other hand, are a grouping of initials that is pronounced as individual letters. Try NASA and FBI.How often have you heard such a grouping and were too insecure to ask what it meant?A f …
Oftentimes we’ll just put the TV on in the evening for background noise while we clean up the dishes and move on to other tasks. (We rarely block out the time to sit and watch one of the many “streamed” shows the are in the “must watch” list.)So, we have one of the formulaic network shows in the background.And now it’s baseball season and there is …
There’s an elderly couple in our development. We often see them walking. She with a walker and he cautiously walking beside her.The thing that set them apart was that they never seemed friendly. No smiles. No reciprocal greeting.Recently, there had been activity at their home. Ambulance. And the woman is not around.I met him at the recycling bin an …
Do you have Real ID?The restrictions on domestic air travel without Real ID are finally going into effect on May 7th.When the topic came up with friends at dinner the other night, I cautiously removed my driver’s license from my wallet. I had no recollection of the last renewal and, in the dim light of the restaurant I couldn’t make out any of its …
