Cat-nipped: my cat wants me dead
Photographs by Mark Lungariello. Surely, the cat is thinking of killing me. It might not be a crime of passion exactly but it would…
The design problem solver
Julie, my wife — a.k.a. The Boss — went to a friend’s workshop one recent Saturday morning and returned with a freshly sawed and…
Are guys romantic?
Time was running out in the fourth quarter of the AFC division game and the Denver Broncos were trying to come back from a…
Magical Mauritius
The island country of Mauritius occupies a quiet corner of the globe off the African mainland, east of Madagascar, in a part of the…
Notes from the bush
I slept lightly that first night in the hut at the Serondella Game Lodge in South Africa. There weren’t any locks on the doors….
Finding the new in the now
I woke up one Tuesday morning in December 2006 and before I dressed for work, I went over to the desk, took a ballpoint…
R and R – Raveis and racing
Photographs courtesy William Raveis. In Kent Hanley’s country-chic office, green toy soldiers dominate the landscape. They line up strategically on the window sills….
The real estate of a newlywed
When couples married in the olden days – the 1970s – the first post-wedding task was finding the perfect house to move into together….
Mike Spano and Mary Calvi find the time
Mary Calvi, the WCBS news anchor and former News 12 personality, has smoothly and calmly covered everything from Pope John Paul II to the…
Sour couples
Love is not all you need. Some of the most famous pairs in pop culture weren’t romantic duos but partners of a different kind…
Confessions of a fashion victim
In the fall of 2008, I carried my one and only suit jacket on a wire hanger into the men’s department of Bloomingdale’s White…
Wedding planning and the male-female IQ gap
One night in the spring of 1997, some unlucky teenage dope parked his car under a tree during a rainstorm. The next day, the…
Fathers of invention
We ride in their creations, listen to them, play games with them. Without them, the world would be a truly inconvenient, less exciting place….
Champagne, swords and silver
Nicolas Krafft is the Americas president and CEO of Christofle Inc., the luxury silver maker known for its flatware, home décor and jewelry. He’s…
The new American pastime?
Some Americans still hate soccer because it’s an assault on the sanctity of the American rite of snack time. That must be the reason….
Far from the World Cup
The locker rooms at Alan R. Skidelsky Memorial Field in New Rochelle are what you might call a work in progress – which is…
Coach Farm, where they make the goat cheese
We walked into a barn and the room went quiet, as if the goats had been talking about us just before we came in….
Westchester isn’t upstate…not that there’s anything wrong with that
New York City residents, who are famously and proudly insular, often see New York state as two broad regions – “the city” and everything…
The pull of Hudson River endures
The Hudson River of the mid-20th century must have borne little resemblance to the virgin waterway that Henry Hudson first happened upon in 1609…
A new look and a new owner for The Surf Club
Anthony Martello, the new owner of the Surf Club on the Sound, passes by a shrub at the back of the club and notices…