I went to bed that night, trying to stay awake but slipping off to sleep and then waking up on Christmas morning, surprised beyond my wildest imagination, as I stared wide-eyed at the array of games and toys that were loaded under the Christmas tree and bulging out of my stocking. I knew how those presents got there – they came from Baby Jesus – or did they?
Read MoreThanksgiving is a uniquely American national holiday - with all due respect to our ‘cousins’ north of the border. It’s been part of our culture since the seventeenth century, when settlers from England and the Netherlands arrived in Plymouth, Massachusetts and Jamestown, Virginia.
Read MoreFor decades, my husband and I have been early morning voters at the North Mianus School in Old Greenwich. The only time we ever experienced a wait of more than a minute or two was in the mid-term election in 2018, and I wrote about it as a good sign that the citizenry was involved.
Read MoreIn a quiet moment of reflection after the announcement of the death of Ruth Bader Ginsberg, it st ruck me that the example she set in the mission of her life could be exquisitely epitomized by the four cardinal virtues: Prudence, Justice, Fortitude and Temperance.
Read MoreIt’s an understatement to say that the coronavirus has turned life as we once knew it on its head, with experiences ranging from truly life shattering to frightening to exasperating. But a quote from Buddha is worth keeping in mind, “Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within it a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it.”
Read MoreAs the pro bono Chief Administrative Officer of Anchor Health Initiative (AHI), the largest Connecticut health care company serving the primary and specialty needs of the LGBTQ community, I have witnessed firsthand the beneficial impact of telemedicine (also referred to as telehealth) on the lives of our more than 1500 patients.
Read MoreMy town, like so many others across the country, is tiptoeing its way back to normalcy, or should I say, a new state of normalcy.
Read MoreIt was fifty years ago when Earth Day was declared – I remember the event as though it were yesterday. In Cambridge, Massachusetts where I was living at the time, the denizens of Harvard Square were elated to have another cause for demonstration – at least this was less disruptive than the daily and nightly clashes between the police and an assortment of students, supportive professors, beatniks and members of the Hari Krishna sect, in opposition to the Vietnam War.
Read MoreIn the midst of a somber and terrifying time, it can be salutary to occasionally “look on the bright side of life” (Thank you, Eric Idle).
Read MoreThere’s no way to minimize the level of worry and fear permeating the community we live in, and that replicates what is happening in villages, towns, cities and countries around the world.
Read MoreNo one can predict the future, especially in a time of global crisis. In my investment lifetime, there have been five or six such events. All proved to be buying opportunities for stock. History is on the side of long-term investors.
Read MoreHave you ever stumbled upon a product that was so brilliant or so invaluable you wondered why it took so long to invent? That happened to me recently and I thought I’d share the story. Click to read more!
Read MoreAs a diehard New England Patriots’ fan, I was wondering last Saturday how I would get through Super Bowl LIV – would I find myself bored to tears? Torn between which team to root for, I made a last-minute decision to support the Kansas City Chiefs. Why not? They’d been “in the desert” for fifty years, and I’m an underdog lover (except when it comes to the Patriots).
Read MoreLet’s face reality – to paraphrase Rodney Dangerfield, “We, the tea drinkers of the United States, get no respect”.
If you’re a coffee drinker, I can’t expect you to empathize with our plight, but you might think about how you’d feel if the circumstances were reversed – just substitute the word ‘coffee’ for ‘tea’ throughout this lamentation.
The annual Christmas Pageant at school was an event I looked forward to as a young child – but that anticipation was always tinged with a dose of apprehension because the role each of us would play in the pageant was determined by a contest that took place in the classroom.
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