My daughter Cara hasn’t ridden in a horse show in five or six months, but today at the Fairfield County Hunt Club in Westport CT, she won best in show. She won the jumping competition and finished first and sixth and the flat events for an overall first place finish. Way to go, Cara!
Cara and I spent the weekend in New England, visiting the University of New Hampshire and the University of Vermont (left), mostly for the purpose of affirming that she really hopes to be attending the University of Kentucky or Texas A&M this time next year. The ride up Friday night was stressful, taking place in …
I finally cashed in the fabulous Father’s Day gift I received in June, as Ginny and Molly and Cara took me to see the Yankees beat the Toronto Blue Jays, 7 to 5, on a picture-perfect end-of-summer afternoon in the Bronx. We sat in Section 306 in the Terrace, which put us in a prime …
One should always take the opportunity to associate oneself with the Marx Brothers. Yesterday Ginny and Cara and I went to Belmont Park in Queens for a day of races capped off by the Belmont Stakes. It was fetid afternoon in the metropolitan apple, but sitting in the lower grandstand, under the overhang, we enjoyed …
Cara and I spent Thursday and Friday visiting two colleges that she’s interested in, Morrisville State College, one of the very few SUNY schools that offers equine studies, and Cazenovia College. Cara and her mother had visited Cazenovia last summer, and when we pulled out of the driveway, it was the school that definitely headed …
Happy Birthday to Cara. At top left, two days old, coming home for the first time after another big snow in the stormy winter of 1993; at bottom left, deigning to have her picture taken, but just once, and only for the requirements of posterity. ?
We had a swell time the day after Christmas by hydroplaning down to Arthur Avenue in the Bronx and joining the gang for dinner at Dominick’s. The always-crowded family style restaurant had long been one of favorite haunts, and though Ginny and I had not eaten there for ten years or so, we had spent …
The usual Christmas Eve gang evidenced some new tricks the home of Cathy Gallagher and Tim Hart, pulling out the old chestnut, charades. Smooth Criminal. Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb. Avatar. The Audacity of Hope. Going Rogue. Tiger Woods. Up. Smiles all around. UP: Greg and Susan; …
Cara passed her driver’s test yesterday. I’m proud of her. She practiced all summer. Did a good job. Maintained the speed limit. Left a lot of distance between her and the car in front of her. Used good judgment. When we got home, predictably enough, she wanted the keys. Needed to go to the supermarket. …
The world–well, a small subset of the world–gathered in Washington Square Park yesterday for World Science Day. Actually kind of an underwhelming event, but it was nice to spend an afternoon in Greenwich Village with Ginny and the girls.