Chris Nordquist
After what seemed like weeks of fair weather in New York, the skies were dark on Halloween, and it threatened to pour. Fortunately, the weather held long enough for the City’s trick-or-treaters to show off their costumes and collect their loot. Julia was a ghost this year, and had a ball scaring the residents of […]
As it turned out, it was a lot more orderly that I expected, and everyone had a good time, myself included. We had invited a dozen five year-olds to make their own pizzas to help Julia celebrate her fifth birthday, and the weekend before I was wondering if I’d got a little carried away –as […]
It was bound to be a cold, snowy, mostly indoor weekend for our outdoors-loving daughter, and so I thought I would brighten up Julia’s room with an early Valentine’s treat. On Friday morning before the first flakes flew, I went to New York’s flower district (28th street, mostly between 6th and 7th Avenues) to get […]
All of our Holiday cookie packages have gone and, I think, have also been received, so our slightly crazy annual cookie project is done for another year (apart from some gingerbread I’ll bake tomorrow for our gingerbread tree .) Gingerbread is still Julia’s and David’s favorite, and my grandmother’s Date Nut Rolls are still mine, but […]
What can I say? They’re beautiful. And, apart from having good taste in friends, I can’t take any credit for them. The flowers were for a cocktail party at our New York place last weekend to celebrate Spring and, surreptitiously, David’s birthday. The occasion called for something very special, and so I called our good […]
One of the many unexpected benefits of having a child has been remembering some of the pleasures of my own childhood. Brownies, for instance. As I searched for the brownie of my childhood, though, I found that a really good one is hard to come by. Some were dry and chewy and tasted only vaguely […]
I had suggested a butterfly, and for a while she was into swimming like a dolphin (on the hall carpet), but by mid-October she had made up her mind: she would be a witch for Halloween. Last week I got a clarification: she still wanted to be a witch, but a good witch, preferably one […]
We’re back in New York now, but managed to fit in a short trip to London after our days in Paris. In London our balance between work and play shifted toward work, but we still found time to have some fun. We stayed at Brown’s Hotel in Mayfair, which is one of the oldest hotels […]
David and I are on a short trip to Paris and London, and we’re having a lovely time. It’s full-on fall in Paris — the leaves are turning, it’s a little chilly, and, of course, there’s the daily drizzle. No matter, though. Paris does grand very well, but it does cozy even better. We’re staying […]
So much about Rio de Janeiro is spectacular –the monolithic granite mountains that leap from the sea, the jungle that surrounds them (and the shantytowns that climb their sides) and, of course, the long beaches lined with rows of sleek modernist buildings on the land side and a wide band of exuberant human activity at […]
