Finally! got my underwater photos published from our stay on Kauai in May 2016. The ocean, weather, and surf conditions were much better than the previous year at the same time. I was lucky to be able to get in several North shore dives at Tunnels and several South shore Read more…
Our trip to Hawaii in May, 2016 started in Oahu to attend my sister Deb and Mary’s wedding. Sixteen years in the making, on a bright, wonderful Spring afternoon in the Kailua backyard of friends. Maxine and I were chuppah pole holders, along with Mary’s brother Jay who flew in Read more…
Deb and Mary visited back East for several weeks at the end of the Summer for the first time since their wedding in Oahu in May, 2016. To celebrate for those that were unable to travel for the ceremony, Myra and Reivan had a huge Sunday brunch for friends, family, Read more…
Deb and Mary were in from Hawaii, so we wanted to get together with friends Billy and Becky Laughlin over Labor Day weekend, 2016. No one wanted to do a long road trip, so Max organized a Sunday tour of local CT wineries, stopping midday for lunch at the Chamard Read more…
Halloween was quite the dress-up occasion for Sophie this year. Towards the beginning of October she donned a tux to compete in the pet costume contest at our local Agway. Then came Halloween itself which fell on a Saturday this year. That plus the great dry weather (yeah, who doesn’t Read more…
Our first real road trip with Sophie was to Freeport, Maine over Labor Day weekend 2015. Our first stop was Friday afternoon lunch at the Chauncey Creek Lobster Pier in Kittery. We then made it up to Freeport by late afternoon and checked into our dog-friendly accommodations at the Harraseeket Read more…
Maxine and I spent a beautiful Fall weekend in Lake George, NY to attend the wedding of our niece Sarah Strasser and her fiancé (of six years!) Steve Shapiro. Yeah, it was definitely about time! We decamped to The Sagamore, a classic estate with expansive property overlooking the lake. Friday Read more…
It took a while, but we finally received Sophie’s championship certificate in the mail from the AKC! Lyrac’s Sun Kissed Meadow is her “kennel name”, but she is Sophie to us.
Here we went again, back to the Cayman Cookout in January for 4 days of culinary ridiculousness followed by a week of recovery, golfing and diving. As before, the headline chefs were the troika of Eric Ripert, Anthony Bourdain, and José Andrés. New this year was Lidia Bastianich, Rick Bayless, Read more…
This ridiculously cold winter weather reminded me of our anniversary weekend trip into NYC last March with Max’s best friend Maureen Beurskens and Marke Baker. I had the photos lying around, but never got around to publishing them. Marke and Maureen live in Charlotte and flew up for the main Read more…