I don’t cook all that often, but I do have a few tried & true recipes that I trot out on the holidays. One of them is for Passover. “Chocolate Toffee Matzo”, first seen by my sister Annie in the Orange County Register, of all places. I’ve made it over & over, even sent it…
Pat White and I were Trustees at the Rhode Island School of Design… and during a break in the meetings, she admired my light gray Oxfords (with their yellow soles and laces). It was then she taught me a new word: “Brogues”. She had a pair of blue ones she loved, and the hunt has…
It doesn’t have to be long or verbose. It can be short and sweet, like this “Thank you” I got from Biff today. Handwritten on thick Crane-type paper. A buck slip bearing his full name engraved at the bottom. A snapshot, one sentence that says it all. I love it. Not a wasted word. It’s…
A team of parking valets can make or break a party … and Greg Gee, who owns Crystal Valet, has always proved him 1000% reliable. He greets me with a big smile and a flourish whenever I see him, and I try to write a “thank you” after each time we use his company. Here…
…imagine what a letter to someone could do. “I’m thinking of you.” “I appreciate what you did for me.” “Your kindness made a huge difference in our lives.” “You make me smile.” * It takes a minute to jot down a thought. It stays on the paper forever. It can be prominently displayed or hidden…
www.nytimes.com/2014/04/06/fashion/the-found-art-of-thank-you-notes.html?_r=0 Thank you Laura Segura-Mueller … Scott Matlins … Sherry Stern … Franklin “Biff” Levy … Meryl Marshall-Daniels… Karen Mauskop from New York… and Iris Rave from San Francisco… for alertly sending me this “”THE FOUND ART OF THANK YOU NOTES” in this weekend’s New York Times. By the time I got to read it…
I know it’s hard to come into a new position and not know anyone. When I saw the announcement of a long-awaited Development Director for Rhode Island School of Design’s Museum, I hastened to write our new friend a letter… so when she starts on the 14th of April, it will be waiting for her…
The new interim President of Rhode Island School of Design was coming to town, and we wanted to have a ‘welcome party’. We needed a location for easy travel that was traffic-friendly. A place with good food we wouldn’t have to worry about. Easy listening acoustics, a requirement. So President Rosanne Somerson would feel comfortable…
Back in the 1990’s, when my daughter Jamie was too young to know what “Playboy” was, I worked on television shows for the Channel. I started out doing a talk show, “Who’s On Top?” It was an innocent time. Everyone was fully clothed. We billed it as a sociological phenomenon. A chance for men &…
We get our furniture and drapes cleaned and “fiber-sealed” once a year… I wrote a note to Brent, our service advisor, to thank him — we’ve worked together for ten years… and he’s about to go to a new job. He sent me the last invoice — and told me, ‘Be sure to look at…
