Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Academy of St. Joseph, Brentwood in the Pines, Brentwood LI NY, Catholic Convent School, culture, Ed Begley Jr, Ed Begley Sr, folk history, Memoir, School Days, Sister of St. Jospeh, Sweet Bird of Youth on December 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Photograph: Academy of St. Joseph (Brentwood in the Pines), from website
“How sacred are thy hallowed walls, Oh Brentwood. A century of learning has combined beauty, truth and culture here to form us . . . that we may mirror Christ in heart and mind . . . ” from the old school song written by [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Coffee, Gluten-Free NY Cheesecake, Lebanese Coffee, NY Cheesecake, Peet's Coffee & Tea on December 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Picture from Peet’s Coffee and Tea Website
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee’s frothy goodness. Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
Wo/man does not live by coffee alone. Have a slice of N.Y. Cheesecake ordered from Junior’s or made gluten-free by you.
“How to Make Lebanese Coffee” at Musing by Moonlight, December 27, 2008.
Happy Day [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Celiac Disease, Gluten-Free, Gluten-Free NY Cheesecake, Junior's Cheesecake, Merry Christmas, NY Cheesecake on December 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Photograph: Photographer and origins unknown.
Best wishes for the holidays, no matter which one you are or aren’t celebrating. Christmas Blessings! Metta! Le Heim! Happy Holidays!
This is a recipe a la Juniors. If you don’t have celiac disease and wheat and gluten are not problems for you, you can order a Junior’s cheesecake directly from the restaurant. The traditional recipe calls [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Brooklyn, FeedAmerica.org, Food Bank Locator, hunger, hunger in America, Palo Alto, Second Harvest of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties, Stop the Hunger.com, world hunger on December 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Perfekt World, Clara Lofaro
Help put a Christmas smile on someone’s face, Feed the World, Action Against Hunger
Rusted old cars and no where to go,
Although we have worked hard we have nothing to show.
Looking for food and no place to stay,
Most people don’t care if we faded away.
You treat us like criminals, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 1950s, Brooklyn NY, Cantor Yosef Rosenblatt, Connie Francis, Hanukah, immigrant experience, My Yiddishe Mama, novel excerpt, novel writing, Steinway Piano, writing, writing life on December 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Photograph by Jamie Dedes
I often use music to nurture the mood of a scene. For the piece that follows, I used Cantor Rosenblatt’s My Yiddishe Mama of which Connie Francis did a pop Italian-American version.I find this particular song evocative of the conflicting pull of the old and new on immigrant peoples that I observed growing up [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Brooklyn, Inspiration, Manhattan, National Novel Writing Month, novel, novel in progress, San Francisco Bay area, writing on December 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is a picture taken in Brooklyn, New York. It is the only formal picture that I have of my mother and her siblings as children. I was told that my grandmother was twenty-eight in this picture and pregnant. She is with five of the seven children she had at that time. The two eldest [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Brooklyn, Christmas, Hanukah, Latke, Lemony Snicket on December 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
” . . . but this is a Christmas story in which things tend to happen that may never occur in real life.”
“Sort of like Joseph and Mary hiding out in the manger.”
” Let me tell you a funny story about pagan rituals.”
The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming: A Christmas Story, by Lemony Snicket (a.k.a. Daniel [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Christmas Tree, Manhattan, Rockefeller Center, Tree-lighting Ceremony on December 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Photograph: NYC Tourist.com
http://www.nyctourist.com/xmas_rockcenter1.htm
A Christmas tree! A Christmas tree!
With dark green needled memories
Of childhood dreams and mysteries
Wrapped present like in front of me.
A Christmas Tree, A Christmas Tree by David Keig
A Christmas tree at home was always fun and appreciated, however modest. Nonetheless, it was the annual Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony that was THE [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Add new tag, jazz, Leonard Bernstein, Mahler, NY Philharmonic, Young People's Concerts on December 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Music is being made. Come on in.” Leonard Bernstein reading script at a Young People’s Concert – this one on Jazz – at the NY Philharmonic.
“I will never forget going to a New York Philharmonic rehearsal when Leonard Bernstein was conducting Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony. I was imagining how many hundreds of times [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Gift of the Magi, Gramercy Park, Manhattan, O.Henry, Pete's Tavern, Prohibition on December 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Even if you have never been to Pete’s Tavern you probably already know this local Gramercy Park legend. Pete’s is often seen on television, appearing on CNN, VH-1, BBC, Seinfeld, Law and Order, Sex and the City, Fox Cable News and The Food Network. It has been showcased in several motion pictures, including Ragtime, Endless [...]
