Generally speaking, we like choices and options.And one choice we face almost daily is whether to pay by credit card or cash. (Whether influenced by the ubiquitous added fee or not.)There’s an ice cream shop in Edgartown that is “cash only”. It reminds me of many establishments in a by-gone era.As I was enjoying my ice cream, I spoke to a friend of …
Many, many years ago, as we were packing the car for the return home from Martha’s Vineyard, a fellow guest bid us good wishes. When we complained that we heading for the “Sad” Ferry, he shared his words of wisdom:“If you don’t leave, you can never come back.”We have shared those words with so many others. Wise words meant to console and, at the sa …
We are back for a week on Martha's Vineyard....and, as I was thinking about my blog for this week, I realized that i was re-composing a blog previously written. So here is my blog from about the same time last year: We’re on Martha’s Vineyard and as we drove from the ferry to our destination, I was quickly reminded that there is a lot of traffic on …
When you park into a space - if there’s an option of parking “head-in” or backing in - what do you do ?In our community, there are some parking areas which allow for such choices. I’ve noticed a slight preference for heads-in parking.I wonder what makes people choose one? Is “backing-in” for those who plan ahead? It’s easier to pull into a spot hea …
We have a marble solitaire game on our coffee table. It’s a big handsome wooden board with beautiful glass oversized marbles.It has always been an attraction to visitors, especially our grand children. As each gets older, their interest moves from observing and spinning the marbles to actually taking on the challenge of the game — with the ultimate …
I may not have as many T shirts as Fred, but I have a fair number. I even have a box of T shirts in storage after a recent purge of T shirts.I have “plain” T shirts in a variety of colors and “message” T shirts that recall events, places and causes.I tend to favor plain T shirts that carry no message. Every once in a while, I am moved to wear a mes …
Flo and I grew up in the same neighborhood. Although we didn’t know each other back then, Flo lived a few doors down from a childhood friend of mine.So we decided to go for a drive to visit the old neighborhood.First past the house that I grew up in. Not much of a change since my mother moved over twenty five years ago. The four- way stop signs wer …
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 …
