At 5:46 a.m. this morning, I received a phone call from Gateway Plumbing and Heating, informing me that they were sending a team over to my apartment, between 10 a.m. and noon, to take a look at the boiler that had mysteriously stopped working Saturday afternoon. For Gateway, this was not a particularly early call. …
Monthly Archives: December 2010
The Bottle and the Damage Done
I simply refuse to enter into any debates as to whether or for how long breastfeeding (as opposed to formula, or in this case, breast milk in a bottle) should be done. You feed your kid how you like and I’ll do the same with mine, and eighteen years from now we’ll compare SAT scores …
More Skies, More Money
So I officially beefed with United, and then we laid down our weapons. Now, after a very brief and playdate-filled return to New York, we headed out again this morning, this time for a more traditionally-timed sojourn to my hometown. And with any new flight itinerary these days, it seems, comes a fresh outrage. But …
Type 1 Resilience
My daughter finally had a playdate yesterday with a friend from last year, who had started kindergarten elsewhere and whom my daughter hadn’t seen in over six months. It was a pleasure to see both the girl and her parents. The father grew up in the Upper West Side 30 or 40 years ago, when …