If music be the food of love - play on!

We don't get to New York City nearly enough, but there's always the holiday visit to look forward to. This year it came a bit early, but it was marvelous. Dinner with Mom and Chris and a visit with Aunts Helen and Ronnie. A visit to a magnificent Armory show. Lunch with girlfriends and a Parisian escape at L'Absinthe.

Our visits with very long time friends is always something to look forward to. The annual dinner with Steve's men's group of nearly 30 years is something we look forward to all year long. This year's visit brought us together from New York, Connecticut, Boston and California. We shared updates on children and compared stories on grandchildren. And then brunch the next day with Steve's Harvard Business School roommates - the Baums. We are blessed!

However, the most memorable of this season's visit happened on a stage. The Twelfe Night was easily one of the most wonderful of any Shakespeare productions I've ever experienced - and this production IS to experience and not simply to see.  Originally performed at London's Globe Theatre, it is done in true Shakesperean style.  All parts are played by male actors, with original instruments and unique bleacher  seats on stage. Words spoken with heart, humor and a touch of baudiness had us all fully engaged with rapt attention, laughter and applause. So get ye to a nunnery - oh I mean - a ticket office before it leaves this February. King Richard the III, is being performed by the same troupe. Ah, maybe there is another visit to New York before February?

And so it ends - 1st time in 85 years & 3rd time in a decade

The Red Sox became MLB World Champions on Wedensday night. 87% of all Boston televisions were watching the game and pretty much everyone else was there at Fenway. But, not to worry if you missed it, because this story is surely a movie in the making. 

This team ended their last season with the unenviable record of WORST in MLB baseballl. And Boston is one tough, unforgiving, unrelenting sports town. You blow it and we'll let you know it!  But if you pull together and give it your all, we'll stick by your side and travel coast to coast to support you. 

The 2013 team did just that. There's been endless talk about their chemistry, beards that haven't been shaved since Spring training, talent and guys just having fun!  The pay off - Boston fans celebrate the MLB World Champion win with their Sox here at Fenway for the first time in 85 years. How long ago is that? World War I  hadn't ended and 23-year old Babe Ruth had not yet left his curse on the Sox for trading him to NY. 

All of Boston is bleary eyed and smiling.  And after the kids come down from today's Halloween sugar high, their teachers just might be able to get them to  focus again on the classroom. Next, it's the Saturday parade, with Duck Boats driving through th city before floating in the Charles River and hosted by our 20-year in office Mayor Manino, whose retring later this year. Hey, we take the long view here! 

It's been a tough year in Boston. The Red Sox went above and beyond to make it brighter in so many ways. MLB World Champions? Yeah, we'll gladly take it and applaud every last one of the guys on the team!