It is absolutely touching and heart warming when friends come to The Mousetrap. Last evening: Ann and Tommie and Kathleen and Gordon. Thank you so very much. I know you had a long, long drive over the mountains to get here and I am so very appreciative of the time and expense to come to …
Category Archives: Gracious
Two Sisters
One older, one younger. Which wine glass belongs to which? Which sister of which wine glass wins more Scrabble games? Which sister eats more popcorn?!
Waaaaay Back!
Tonight, Carol and Richard and Donna and Naomi and David and ‘little sister Ruthie’ came to the Mousetrap. The last time they saw me on stage was with them in senior year of high school. Not quite yesterday! Thank you for your generosity in making time and being so enthusiastic. You were a delight. In …
Give Me a Home…
…not a tiny apartment but a large kitchen, and more living space and I will find ways to fill up time unintentionally rearranging and ‘fixing’. Not a habit I want to return to, but certainly fun for a time. But what a lot of time it takes.
Super-Star Mother
She watched as her adult son and daughter-in-law boarded the train in suburban CT, bound for the City. As he stepped over the gap between the platform and the train, the pants on the hanger from the cleaners slipped off their perch and disappeared into the abyss below. As his eyes registered his horror and …
Priceless!
This house is on the Upper East Side on a street of exquisite buildings. The photo left is a partial of the entrance with a flowerbox above the impressive portal. The photo [right] below is a shot of the entire facade. The photo left is the adjoining house of a famous painter, now deceased. …
Doors
Every city has fine examples. But do we notice? These drew my attention this week.
The Rose
There is lay. Alone. At 12:30 on a weekday, on a bench in the 4th Street Subway station. Red, wrapped in cellophane and abandoned. For whom was it intended? Did that person not mean enough so that one could just walk off without it? When did he/she remember that they had forgotten something? Could they …
Subway Art
The City subways may not rival those of great European cities, but there is a concerted effort to make them attractive. These are examples of the tile work found on some of the platforms.
Bygone Glory
If one looks up in some of the subway stations, you can see the glory that used to be, but is now gone to ruin. Not only has it not been possible to keep it up, but new wiring has been placed in an unattractive but necessary way. There must have been a time when …