Twice last week, sets of friends visited my home for the first time. In both cases, they fooled me completely. They knocked on the front door. I was waiting at the back door, where friends are expected. “I didn’t know you had a front door,” another friend remarked when I told … [Read more...]

The New York Mets have officially approached Major League Baseball, requesting a shorter season for 2008, citing that a 162 game season is just too long. “We were in sole possession of first place, for 135 days and since the middle of May, and look what happened,” said their … [Read more...]

It’s the most wonderful time of the year…blowing the dust off of the Christmas boxes, rooting through piles of decorations, realizing that items previously considered keepsakes now deserved a proper burial in the “tacky pile.” I lugged what I could salvage upstairs anticipating … [Read more...]

Ah! Summertime -- the joy of sitting and relaxing, curling up and reading a book, taking a random nap whenever you choose. The joy of a teacher’s being out of school. There’s nothing like it. No, really … there’s nothing like it. It is nothing short of a mirage, if that … [Read more...]

Four years ago, I fell in love with New York City. Last November, I broke it off. You see, exactly one year ago, my husband ran the New York City Marathon. My son Kyle and I were so determined to cheer on (in our opinion, anyway) the 2006 race’s most important runner, that we … [Read more...]