I love this old photo from the first time the ball dropped in Times Square on New Year’s Eve, 1907. Have you ever been to Times Square on New Year’s Eve? Would you want to go? When I was younger I dreamed of ringing in the new year there with the masses, but nowadays I’m [...]

We’re having a hard time at our house right now because our beloved golden retriever, Gunther, is very ill with liver disease. We’d noticed a few small changes in his behavior, but attributed them to his getting older. But then he really started to go downhill (not eating, needing to go outside a lot more, [...]