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Travel, United States

Easter Photo Fun! A Photo Essay of the Big Egg Hunt in NYC

I’m ashamed to admit, but when I was growing up, Easter was more about where we were going than the holiday itself. Often times, our family had extravagant plans to someplace tropical to shake off the winter blues like Mexico, the Bahamas, or, even once, Venezuela. Other years we visited family in Tampa, Washington, DC, or Los Angeles. Rarely did we stay in Ohio. If we did, we made a road trip…

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Cooking, Eating, Food, Travel, United States

Chelsea Market in Pictures

After a two night hotel stay in Times Square, I wrote New York City off as a place I could never live.  The people, the traffic, the gross over-commercialization, really bad food stands, the honking, comedians trying to get me to buy tickets, the construction, the people.  Yes, I listed people twice – throngs of them (tourists and business folk alike) shoving back and forth and heaving through crosswalks was way too…

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Blogging, Travel, United States

A Visit to Ellis Island and A Wake Up Call

I stood at the foot of the famed Registry Hall in Ellis Island’s Main Building and took myself back in time to the day my great-grandmother, Maria Fagnano, arrived.  The red clay colored floor before me was perfectly shined to museum quality and the white terra cotta ceiling tiles brought in much needed light and heat from the bright afternoon sun.  It was too pristine, too showcased.  What would it have been…

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Travel, Travel Tips, United States

New York City – There’s an App for That

I’m not one for keeping up with technology.  I still buy CDs and just bought my first Droid in January.  I chose a dog overan iPod when my wife presented with options five years ago.  (I finally have her old hand me down iPod.)  Within the Innovation Adoption Lifecycle I fall somewhere at the beginning of Late Majority.  It’s not that I am afraid of change.  I have normally embraced change.  My…

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