Mind your manners

Today’s Game Plan column features Gretchen Neels, a consultant who specializes in “soft skills” — or etiquette — in the workplace. Loved her take, particularly on the “entitled” generation we call Millennials. Check it out:...

Beautiful arrangement

Did a bit of feng shui magic in my home today. The money, or wealth, corner is the far left one. Someone pointed this out to me and I realized something significant — mine is filled with items from my past like my antique Nancy Drew books and a few other...

Law & (above all) Order

Sometimes, after successive days of doing fun things, there is nothing like using the third day of a three-day holiday weekend to just be. And sometimes, the best way to cap off that kind of day is by watching Sam Waterston and Jesse Martin solve big crimes inside an...

Fragile China

I keep thinking about the stories from the disaster in China that I heard from the woman who runs the local laundromat. I was in there washing my clothes yesterday and as she relayed story after story, showed me pictures in the Chinese newspaper she was reading, I...

Girl in a twirl

Social butterfly. That’s me. Spent the day strolling the East Village, a street fair, the West Village and grabbing a bite at a diner in between with my cool friend, Erin, who was visiting from California. What a fun afternoon. Then it was off to, well,...