To The Manner Born

The Chanukah Song Written By: Adam Sandler Put on your yarmulke Here comes Chanukah So much funukah To celebrate Chanukah Chanukah is the fe...

Now the first of December was covered with snow And so was the turnpike from Stockbridge to Boston. Lord, the Berkshires seemed dream-like o...

"Imagine a morning in late November. A coming of winter morning more than twenty years ago. Consider the kitchen of a spreading old hou...

The Literary Review of London held its annual Bad Sex in Fiction award banquet last night. The prize exists, according to Review editor, Al...

happy Birthday Mr. Clemons. I'm still wraslin with the Autobiography. Toad

Do you read Will Boehlke's A Suitable Wardrobe ? I read it much as I do Town and Country, more aspirational than anything, but it is a...

I'm becoming my father. I realized much too late that my father was a car guy. He just had an odd way of showing it. From the early 1960...

Happy Birthday Nancy!!!!! If you are unfamiliar with her writing, try her 2 semi-autobiographical novels, "The Pursuit of Love" an...

Tempted by the holiday ads for the " Star Registry "? If you're unfamiliar, the program works like this. Tonight take a look ...

Let the holiday shopping commence, just without me please. I mentioned in the past that there is little in the phrase "Black Friday...

While you prepare for your traditional Thanksgiving celebration, its good to remember a bit of American History. Americans tend to believe t...

While hanging in line at the airport, waiting to visit the family, have your laundry done, and be asked 10 thousand times how your love life...

Thursday is Thanksgiving Day in the US. A day which commemorates the first harvest feast celebrated by the earliest British Puritan settler...

This news item is likely to attract local spin, fabrication, lies, urgent calls for reform and calls for heads to roll. You won't hea...

You may be anticipating Thanksgiving, but in our house the greater celebration is Katy Day. Today is my first born's birthday, she was b...

Speaking of the Beatles, it appears that Yoko has relented and the various owners of the Beatles music catalog have agreed that Beatles tune...

I've written previously about pre-aging new clothes, but I haven't done this...yet. I was unsuccessfully attempting to identify a ta...

A bit over a year ago, I gave my car to #2 son. I haven't replaced it. I neither miss not having it, nor am I terribly inconvenienced ...

This is a once in a lifetime occurance. Sean, Yoko, Cynthia and Julian Lennon posing as one big happy family, together at the September 16,...