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Archive for June, 2007

Tai Chi in Central Park

I saw an ad in the NY Times today about a place for sale in Connecticut: a ready-made summer camp in a residential area. This made me think about the Tai Chi Farm and what a wonderful place and experience it was. If I had the means, I’d buy that summer camp [...]

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Skin Deep is a website that will tell you how safe your cosmetics are. This very detailed site breaks down the ingredients one by one and assesses their risk, then gives an overall score. According to Skin Deep, my Pantene shampoo gets a rating of “4″ (1 is high, 10 is low), my [...]

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Hotpot is HOT

According to a Xinhua survey, Chinese spend 30 billion yuan (3.9 billion U.S. dollars) per year on Hotpot. 36 percent of China’s top 100 food businesses are Hotpot restaurants.

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Note to self:

The Greenmarket is much better in the morning. We went to Union Square around closing time last night and much of the produce was wilted. I did find this amazing green leaf lettuce, however. It is delicious. Perhaps I’ll bring a salad to the Met Opera in Central Park picnic tonight. [...]

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The Island

M bought and put together this island for me. I can’t believe we finally have a kitchen that’s big enough for an island!

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