Dear Friends and Family, On trips to Connecticut from France we usually experience jet-lag, but in a good way, waking up early, around 4am. One morning my daughter asked if we could take a drive. Where? Anywhere. Shall we drive north, west or east? We drive east, just drive for a couple of hours, enjoying the sky lightening in front of us. We always drive on secondary roads, this time on Route 1, the … Read more
We normally spend New Year’s Eve in Philadelphia with our good friends. On a recent trip to “The City of Brotherly Love,” I found Meglio Furs, on South Broad Street. The store is closed, but the sign remains. A couple of websites talk about the store. Here is a good one, a real estate blog called Naked Philly. I love this sign, a remembrance of the style and taste of the 40’s and … Read more
Last year, on college tour with my family to California, we came upon Cora’s Coffee Shoppe. Sometimes when you’re on vacation (or on college tour) it’s nice to step out of your motel early in the morning before all the other tourists are up. Grab a coffee and walk on the beach, or down the Main Street. Or in this case Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica. Cora’s is located on 1802 Ocean Avenue. What … Read more
This painting and two others, Perkins Rubber Stamps and White Tire Bicycle, will be on exhibit, with many other paintings from alumni of the New York Academy of Art. This is the third annual all alumni exhibition, held at Studio 7 Fine Art Gallery and The Bernardsville Library, in Bernardsville, New Jersey. Opening Reception: Friday, May 1, 6:00pm-9:00pm Studio 7 Fine Art Gallery 5 Morristown Road, Bernardsville, NJ 07924 studio7artgallery.com – a n d … Read more
“It’s better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.” – Laurence J. Peter When I first read this quote I didn’t know who Laurence J. Peter was, so I looked him up. He is a Canadian educator, author and Hierarchiologist, who, with Raymond Hull, wrote the book The Peter Principle: Why Things Alway Go Wrong. The Peter Principle humorously states that in … Read more