The condo holiday party: When you spend a couple hours in the lobby with the people you usually share awkward silences with in the elevator.
Electric scooters are just the latest fad allowing Americans to avoid physical exertion.
Up in Washington over Thanksgiving weekend, I was struck by the fact that our capital, of all American cities, is the one that’s the closest to being the antithesis of Miami. It is serious while Miami is fun, grey vs. colorful (architecturally), bland vs. flashy (sartorially), monumental vs. homey, international vs. Hispanic. About the only thing they have in common is corruption.
For Americans, isn't a hatred of immigrants a form of self-hatred?
Yesterday at a little before sunset I zipped up my jacket and headed out for a walk around the island. On the south dock a man walked slowly in T-shirt and shorts.
"Don’t you think you oughta go home and put on a sweater?” a man asked from his boat. He was having drinks with his wife, both of them dressed warmly
“I do,” the man said thoughtfully. “But I’m really enjoying the feeling of being cold.”
When I came around a second time, he was still talking to the couple on the boat. The conversation had moved to the condition of the dock. At a handful of points during my walk, yellow tape and orange cones had caused me to detour onto the grass, or into the parking lot, because of loose boards.
“They oughta just put police tape around the whole thing,” the man on the boat said, holding his drink.
“We’re going to get everybody,” the man in the T-shirt said, “to lose 10 pounds.”
Yesterday evening, walking down Lincoln Road, I found a small group gathered in front of a menorah. A young woman held a long pole with a flame at the end; the smell of burning oil mingled with the scent of fried potatoes, as a covered tray of latkes sat behind a table. Many of the men wore yarmulkes.
At six, three visitors from Israel were handed the pole to light two candles. I took a photo with my smartphone, and then posted in on Instagram, double-checking to see that I spelled Chanukah correctly.