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?