That’s my daughter Ranie in the middle, with cold water swimmers from Finland and Texas. They were out at Coney Island over the weekend, doing their wild thing. Ranie swam 200 yards in 37 degree water. Why? I have...
BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY, NICE NIGHT
Went to the Rainbow Room at Rockefeller Center last night (that’s the entrance, beyond the skating rink) for a fancy dinner with 400 or so of my former law firm partners. It was and is such a terrific firm…...
FORTNIGHTLY
MINOR SEASONAL MIRACLES
So, I’m sitting at the slightly messy dining room table, having breakfast alone in this lovely old house in the Berkshires, on New Year’s Morning. Yesterday, it snowed again – the fields are six inches deep – but this...
After the election
Back in New York after the election. Went to Florida, like good citizens, to help get out the vote. We’re New Yorkers of course so we’re a bit stunned and saddened with the result. Guess we should have worked...
Old girls fall down
Drove to Boston yesterday, Hilly and I, for the funeral of particularly wonderful friend. A woman named Polly to whom we’d been pretty close for twenty years. She was 89 so it was alright, in a way. Though, as...
