I left Paris in February intrigued by what made French macaroons so good. Their texture is the right balance of chewy, creamy, and crunchy, and the flavor can be anything - rose, chocolate, mocha, lemon, raspberry, or something more imaginative. This weekend, a trip to Dessert Studio - where there were no macaroons, [...]
I was going off a little bit on a class that was wasting time instead of doing what they were asked to do. My back to the whiteboard, I stood looking out across the class, and in the middle of a sentence, I suddenly saw a huge bird on the window ledge. A defunct [...]
One of my favorite places to pass by in my old neighborhood, Alphabet City, was the community garden with the big wooden tower with toys hanging here and there within it. Now it seems the tower will be dismantled. What a loss for the neighborhood and the garden, which were both the more [...]
Cameraphone pix are my new postcards. People don’t seem able to receive them, though. I miss my little Canon, which is still in the shop. Fix it quickly, camera doctors! Then again, my regular camera can’t email them… I went to the gym on the east side today, ran a [...]
Forget presidential politics and go vote for your favorite education weblog over at Ed in ‘08. There are a LOT of candidates.
The Whitney Biennial is one of my favorite things about living in New York. I make my plans to see it with a sense of anticipation. Honestly, I’ve never seen a show at that museum - Biennial or not - that I haven’t found interesting. Lots of people have a hard time with [...]
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