I like New Year’s Eve celebrations as much as anyone. Watching the ball fall in Times Square has been a part of my childhood and now my adulthood. My kids love going to “New York New Year’s Eve parties”, since we’re in Los Angeles, the parties end at 9pm (blessedly). I’m not one for resolutions. If there’s … Read more
According to the NY Daily News, Nintendo’s soon to be released 3d Gaming device comes with a warning that it could injure the eyes of children under 6. Last night I spent about half an hour with Alexander getting a dried out contact lens out of his eye. My son is incredibly lucky that with … Read more
I can hear gum snapping at a hundred yards. I don’t mind people chewing gum around me, so long as their mouths are closed, but gum-snapping is like nails on a chalkboard times 100 for me. Gum snapping is the most whorish (legal) public activity possible. This evening us Gottliebs attended Phantom of the Opera … Read more
We arrived in New York just in time for Snowpocalypse 2010. Mr G and I sort of shrugged and resigned ourself to a difficult existence. I was at the Dumont Plaza for the blizzard in 1996, and every morning we’d rise early, hand the front desk clerk an envelope full of cash and beg to … Read more
We’ve taken a last minute trip to New York City. We arrived here on December 25th, and the blizzard arrived on December 26th. From a corner balcony at the Roger Smith Hotel I was able to capture the first dusting of snow. The flakes were large and puffy, much like the snowfall that lures me … Read more