by grayisgreen | Nov 30, 2011 | Healthy Aging, Home & Garden, Uncategorized
My wife’s father and step-mother visit us once a year for the Thanksgiving feast and come a long way–from Sydney, Australia to New York City. And because we live in a typically small New York apartment, each year they’ve chosen to stay in the same...
by grayisgreen | Nov 28, 2011 | Families-and-Grandkids, Home & Garden, Taking Action
My nephew’s wife had signed on for the midnight-to-7 A.M. shift at the Old Navy in Wayne, New Jersey. My niece was on duty all day at J. Crew’s flagship store in Manhattan’s Flatiron District. I wished them both multiple sales and sizable commissions. But otherwise my...
by grayisgreen | Nov 23, 2011 | Food and Water, Home & Garden
Thanksgiving dinner is a rare American meal, and not just because it’s an annual event celebrated with family and friends. This day of gratitude tends to spin off the yummiest of leftovers, so mercifully little food ends up in the trash. That’s not the...
by grayisgreen | Nov 21, 2011 | Uncategorized
On October 2, the spiders were all gone. Hundreds of them scattered, off into the world to fend for themselves. Their home remained, still sturdy in spite of the winds and rains of Hurricane Irene. I blew on it lightly, just to make sure. Not a movement. The spiders...
by grayisgreen | Nov 16, 2011 | Home & Garden, Uncategorized
The good news: Appliance manufacturers are making appliances more energy efficient than ever, and we as consumers are getting more savvy, for instance buying Energy Star-rated refrigerators that use a fraction of the electricity the old ones did just twenty years ago....
