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A snow falls in Brooklyn

A snow falls in Brooklyn

Stop Press – today was the very first time in my life I had ever gone to work during a snowfall. As a longtime resident of Sydney, this constitutes pure novelty. Apparently the snow storms in the  midwest and north-east of the USA have even made the Australian...
Ice, ice, baby

Ice, ice, baby

Apparently it’s snowing, finally, outside. I can’t tell for sure because it’s 10 o’clock at night and I have no view of the outside world from my apartment – just a deep vertical tunnel separating my building from the one next door,...

Arts seen in Brooklyn

Last night I weaned myself off the laptop computer and headed out. For once, I was actually socialising in my own borough of Brooklyn, and even better, could catch the subway to get to my destination. One of my tennis-playing pals, Steven Paul, runs MadArts, an...

What not to eat … or drink

What I sight I beheld in the Chinese take-away on the corner last night. Waiting for my order of the House Special soup for an economical $4.50, a black man who was rather large around the middle entered the store. He carried a plastic container of milk and a small...

I just can’t get away from university …

On Monday night, when the temperature was a long way below zero (Celcius), I braved the multiple layers of clothing and the literally freezing streets to make my way to Yeshiva University on Lexington Avenue at East 34th Street. My friend Madeleine Beckman had asked...

A clarification re Copha

One regular reader asked me to clarify how copha was procured in New York in order to make chocolate crackles for my Australia Day birthday party. I confess that it was my friend Kate who successfully ordered the contraband online at Simply Australian. Go to the site...
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