shopping

The first thng that comes to mind to write about first thing in the morning in mid-town Manhattan is shopping. This is encouraged by the fact that it is the main story on all local news channels, and was last night before I went to sleep. Macy’s was to open up at six this morning. Continue reading shopping

from Ireland

Just when I’d begun to feel that all Europeans were anti-American, I come across Eamonn Fitzgeral’ds latest entry… Thanksgiving for the indispensable nation Seeing that some 60 percent of Rainy Day’s site visits originate from the USA, it would be churlish indeed to let Thanksgiving pass without giving thanks to all those Americas, not just Continue reading from Ireland

Thanks!

Thanks for my friends for being: Mordechai and Chaya, Tom and Barbara, and Dafna and Erica and Steve and you too, Ruben! And definitely, thanks to y’all who stop by here!

nyc

New York City is, as I had thought it would be, busy being New York City. As the plane passed over Manhattan on its way to LGA, I could see even that its wound is healing: the WTC site, from the air, looks much less like the site of a disaster, and rather now the Continue reading nyc