When I think of watercress, it conjures up images of elegant tea parties at remote British country estates and of the meandering, sun dappled streams where it grows neatly and greenly just waiting to ...Read More
New York is my kind of town. But New York City is definitely not a quiet kind of town. With some notable exceptions… Hidden away near the northeast corner of Central Park lies the secret Conservator...Read More
My friends, this map is not what you think it is. This is not a political map. Far from it. This map was compiled by the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This map shows the distributio...Read More
Glaciers falling off Greenland and Antarctica. Polar bears no longer camouflaged as they sit on brown desert islands. Sea levels rising 6 inches in the last 100 years, with much of that happening in...Read More
I’m one of those people who believe that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. This topic has been the subject of much debate lately. The rise in popularity of the ‘second breakfast’ ...Read More
It seems I’ve been spending an awful lot of time in Brooklyn these days. As a snobby Manhattan-ite there was a time I would never step foot in Brooklyn—except to go to Coney Island. I considered t...Read More
Or watch one come to life before your very eyes at New Dramatists in the heart of Broadway. Many years ago, when I wanted to be a playwright when I grew up, New Dramatists opened up its doors and its ...Read More
A funny thing happened over the last few years. It’s been so subtle, that almost no one noticed it. No one said anything about it. Not loudly, anyway. The truth is, women have made great strides in ...Read More