I was walking along Third Avenue and 47th Street in NYC today and I came upon a truck giving out “FREE” ice cream. “Free? Twist my arm, I’m in!” The Economist was giving out delicious, creamy ice cream to promote subscriptions to their magazine and drum up interest in sustainability. You were welcome to indulge…
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It’s a leap year which means we get an extra day to the year! An ordinary year has 365 days per year but every four years we get a bonus day. A complete orbit of the earth around the sun takes 365.2422 days to complete so leap seconds (and years) are added to keep our…
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Presidents’ Day is unique to the United States. I like to celebrate it because it makes us the US…A! We visited the National Mall in Washington DC for spring break a few years ago. I couldn’t believe how big the monuments are. The statues are so much larger than life! I kept trying to jump up…
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November is the perfect month to practice gratitude. One thing I am very grateful for is change. Change beckons growth and boy has time changed our family over the past three years! I wrote this piece as a Facebook post in 2012 because I was sad to see our picturesque block change. Now I am…
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Everyone always asks me what it is like to celebrate Halloween in NYC. The biggest question is “Where do you trick or treat?” I took a walk around my neighborhood and snapped some photos for you to see NYC all dressed up for us trick or treaters tomorrow! Hope you like them: …
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Happy Father’s Day to all the Dads out there, especially mine. I love you tons! Footsteps “Walk a little slower Daddy,” said a child so small. “I’m following in your footsteps and I don’t want to fall. Sometimes your steps are very fast, sometimes they’re hard to see. So walk a little slower, Daddy,…
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Today I am thinking about a peaceful man. A man who worked for racial equality and the end to discrimination, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. On August 28th 1963 at a historic march in Washington DC, Dr King delivered his famous “I have a dream” speech. You can watch the entire speech below: I was…
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This picture was posted to IMGUR and it rocks! An American and a French snowman standing tall together on the Brooklyn side of the Brooklyn Bridge, We are all human. Grown up people forget that, Kids don’t. We are all the same until someone points out that we are different.…
Read moreI LOVE McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets. I can’t get enough of them! Unfortunately my Mom won’t let me have them. She says they are unhealthy and hardly contain any real chicken. I always wonder if she is just trying to scare me into eating more broccoli. Here’s a video that McDonald’s just released showing how nuggets…
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It’s the “Most Wonderful Time of the Year!” I just watched the lighting of the Rock Center Tree here in NYC. I’m all fired up now so here is my compilation of the best Christmas specials to watch this year. The first section is my pick of the best specials airing on every network except ABC Family. ABC…
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