The last time I thought about William Cullen Bryant was in 1982 when most of my friends were wandering around the hallways at Xavier High School sort of glassy-eyed and mumbling the last stanza of Thanatopsis. “So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, which moves To that mysterious realm, where [...]
It's amazing how many things you can see and do in a New York minute. Last week, my mom and I enjoyed 48 hours of them, during which we saw a Broadway show (naturally), munched giant deli sandwiches, strolled through Central Park, toured the Wall Street Journal, visited Ground Zero, enjoyed the new Through the [...]
We slid into New York Friday morning, one of the last planes to land at LaGuardia ahead of Nemo, the curiously named blizzard that skimmed Manhattan before slamming the East Coast. With exactly 46.5 hours to spend and a New York Neophyte on board, we barely notice the sleet pelting our taxi. We noticed a [...]