Monet’s greatest work of art…his garden
Alas, I did not journey to France to visit Giverny. No, I visited the exhibit of Monet’s Garden at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx. My friend Betsy and I decided we needed to take another one of our adventures, and this appealed to us. We began in...The World Trade Center, Part 2: Remembering the Past
In my last post I talked about all of the new buildings rising up from the ashes of the World Trade Center site. Of course, it is also the site of a terrible tragedy and everyone who works there is very aware of that. The 9/11 museum which is actually under the site...The World Trade Center, Part 1: Rising Anew
We have our very own hometown hero here in Glen Ridge: Steve Plate, the Director of Construction for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. It’s quite a title because he has quite a job: directing the construction of the entire World Trade Center site....Another trip to paradise: The Turks and Caicos
Handsome Husband and I like to go way, way south to get warm after Christmas. Being wanderers, we rarely go to the same Caribbean island twice. So this year we checked out the Turks and Caicos, staying on the island of Providenciales. My father, who commanded a...The curative power of sheep
Handsome Husband and I had planned a romantic escape to a picturesque country inn in Stockton, NJ last week. The Woolverton Inn was built in Colonial times and is absolutely delightful as you can see in this photo: Our room was in this charming little cottage (the...Follow Nancy
