On New Year’s Eve I watched the ball drop on NBC TV and Miley Cyrus perform a song with David Byrne — an activity that felt completely inauthentic. I wasn’t at a party seeing a live, in person performance, so I had the feeling of being a voyeur. …

I lost my dear friend Gregory this weekend and it still doesn’t feel real. …

I got caught in the rain I got caught in the rain tonight while visiting with a friend in Central Park whose father had just passed. At the Shiva gathering we heard about his life as a doctor and research scientist who mentored and championed women as early as the…

Your presence in the streets of Soho is like a ghost, From the subway station at Spring Street, To the cafe where I recently purchased a glass of iced tea — you once emailed me a photo of the place with vinyl records in the window. Even the location of…

I just got back from cleaning out my cubicle at my office, an event I was both yearning for and dreading for several weeks. I admit that I have been dying to go back to the office to see my colleagues and be in my old workplace. I have been…

FINDING MYSELF AT THE DISCO — THE PYRAMID CLUB AT 42 YEARS WILL NOT REOPEN AND I’M DEVASTATED Today is a very sad day for me and other New Yorker’s who love to dance and who used to visit The Pyramid Club NYC. …

As the one-year anniversary of WFH approaches, I am on my way to my office on a Sunday. On this blustery March Sunday, I am on my way to my office. …

I visited Eataly this week in search of a Panettone, a rich Italian bread made with eggs, fruit, and butter and typically eaten at Christmas. The bread is made much the same way as Challah or brioche with several eggs and going through multiple risings, but it is traditionally studded…

The truth of the matter is that I am rooted to the ground. I prefer to walk on flat plains to get from point A to point B. You can predict my movements because I do not want to fly or swim or rise up in the air to see…