Christmas Wrapping

It must be Einstein's Theory of Relativity: I can spend 8 or 9 hours staring at a blank screen and it seems like an eternity, but 11 days can pass without me even realizing it. Spending Christmas in NYC with good friends did make for an extremely pleasant passage, though, so it was worth it.

From Queens to Gandhi to the Empire State Building, from John's pizza to Grand Central to Times Square to Grand Szechuan to Teany's to Chinatown, from the Chinatown Ice Cream Factory to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the New Venus diner to Equus to Rockefeller Center to the Malibu Diner, and finally from Penn Station once again, NYC and our friends offered a perfect respite from our first Christmas without our mom. If there were moments of melancholy, given the circumstances, they were both fitting and necessary.

And now, on to the New Year...