Below is an open letter from my dear friend, Vera Nazarian.  Financial and health issues have sidetracked her writing career for a long time.  She finally has her health back, and is ready to write a book she's been wanting to write for a long time.  She has started a Kickstarter project to help fund the writing of the project.  I don't often make ( Read more... )

It's been a very busy summer for us, and the rest of it looks pretty busy still.  Some highlights ( Read more... )

As has been our custom the past several years, Christina, Austin and I got up before the crack of dawn on Sunday, in order to report to our volunteer duties manning a fluid station on the route of the New York City Marathon.  Friends of mine have been running the first fluid station in Brooklyn, just as the runners come off of the Verrazano Narrows ( Read more... )