A Night With Epicurious and Lidia: Food Is What Keeps Us Alive

“Food is what keeps us alive” ~ Lisa Jakobsberg, Food Bank for NYC Last night, I had the great fortune to attend “Lidia’s Table: Dinner with Lidia Bastianich,” sponsored by Epicurious. She brought her amazing top team from Felidia, Becco and Del Posto to contribute to the courses and spoke to us briefly about the [...]

October 2, 2010 CONTINUE READING →

Poll: What’s Your Favorite Hobby?

I was inspired by today’s Copyblogger post, which discussed numerous ways that bloggers (or simply anyone) can connect with people through the types of content they produce and share. The list reminded me of  questions you’d want to have in your cocktail party question arsenal – in a good, meaningful and relevant way. I also [...]

September 27, 2010 CONTINUE READING →

What I’m Reading, What You’re Reading

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.  ~James Bryce Every book I’ve read either a) comes from a friend or colleague’s recommendation or b) is a result of an airport book store purchase, upon realizing I’ve forgotten reading material. To point “a,” one of my [...]

September 25, 2010 CONTINUE READING →

Announcing Rome: MMIX – A Book by Andrea Preziotti

I’m thrilled to announce the book launch of a dear friend – and TJCC contributor – Andrea Preziotti. A whiz with telling stories with both words and pictures, Andrea created and published her own amazing book: Rome: MMIX. As one who’s traveled to Italy numerous times, I have yet to find a book – or [...]

September 20, 2010 CONTINUE READING →

Is There Soul In Your Grammar?

“To know how near or far each soul is from its goal, the indicator is speech.” – Nachman of Bratzlav I’m sure most of you remember the best classes you’ve ever taken in your lifetime. I bet few of you list “grammar class” as one of them. As a writer, I’m always striving to improve [...]

September 14, 2010 CONTINUE READING →

From Cupcakes to Mosaics: Some Poetry for the People

Who would have thought poetry possible? Certainly not me, the business writer, the essay creator, the creative journalist at heart and by practice. But alas, our writing evolves and it should. Poetry is groovy and we all can do it. Not long ago, I took Sage Cohen’s Poetry for the People course – an fascinating [...]

September 10, 2010 CONTINUE READING →

Are We Being Short-Changed By Gratefulness?

This is a guest post from Stephanella Walsh. Stephanella writes about the creative process at The Creative Identity, tweets as @stephanellaw. Earlier this year a friend of mine tried to articulate contrasting feelings which, it seemed to me, were rooted in her perceived lack of identity since the birth of her child. One thing above [...]

September 2, 2010 CONTINUE READING →

There Are Many Places Like Home: Hacienda San Agustin de Callo

Dorothy of Wizard of Oz fame tells us there is no place like home.  Dorothy has many wise words, but on this one, I’ll have to respectfully disagree. During my travels over the years, I’ve stayed at wonderful hotels, not so wonderful hotels, encountered a mosaic of interesting individuals and captured stories that will remain [...]

August 28, 2010 CONTINUE READING →
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