Right around this time last year, I made a list of things for which I was thankful and posted it on this very blog.  Then I headed out to meet my stepsister Laura, her husband Rob, and their three fabulous kids for a post-Thanksgiving brunch. I remember walking through Central Park to the Westside that day.  The weather was positively glorious and ( Read more... )

The day before Thanksgiving, Laura, her family and I went to lunch at a semi-fancy restaurant on the Upper East Side. There’s a whole story to this lunch, which we think is hysterical, but so far every time any of us has recounted it, our audience hasn’t shared our amusement. I guess it’s one of those you-had-to-be-there things. But as a test of my ( Read more... )