Category Archives: Family
Monday – 11/9/2015
Drove to NYC early. Nyla’s 13th birthday was yesterday, Today is an extra party.
Picasso sculpture at MOMA
Wonderful show. Incredible array of materials, topics, approaches, inventiveness.
Birthday Party
Noah Gilstrap – Lacrosse vs Riverdale 4/15/15
Here are a few seconds of this game. Noah scored 4 goals and an assist in this 8-7 victory on 4/15/15 at Randalls Island.
Play video full screen for best watching.
Sunday – 3/15/15
Spent the bulk of the day at the Economy conference at the Scandanavia House 38 Park Ave. Two very good panels, one on values in economics and the second on the Internet at economics. The discussions by Greta Brochman (U. Olso) on the Nordic welfare model was great. Richard Sennett who I remember from his 974 book Hidden Injuries of Class gave a very striking description of the career environment of today’s economy. Must work on this. Presentation by Shoshanna Zuboff (Harvard B School) was flashy but actually also substantive. Advocacy capitalism vs surveillance capitalism, this latter is winning. Google most obvious example.
Picked up Karen on Upper West side and returned to Hudson by 6 pm or so.
6:12 pm
Monday – 2/16/15
Intense cold. Strong winds.
Temp at 7am.
Paid bills.
Spent most of day old consolidating diary entries into diary.markorton.com
Noah and Nyla came by for chat. John and Stephanie dropped them off. Talk about photography w Karen. Also their favorite books.
Cooked butternut squash soup w spicy sausage & asparagus confit. Karen made salad. Joe Keenan, his wife Lynn McElroy and Dave Drake came over. Good fun.
January 15 – 31, 2015
Thursday – 1/15/15
Mostly still terribly jet lagged from return from Australia.
Talked with Matt Almeida.
Saturday – 1/17/15
Still jet lag.
Took a walk up Warren.
Stopped at HOH to look at Columbia Council on the Arts annual member show.
11/27/2014 – Thanksgiving at Ed & Meredith’s Joint in Berkeley Heights
Thursday
This annual event was punctuated by the usual tomfoolery. Turkey brining on back deck; Maggie stretching out cats; visits to the horse.
10/15/2012 – Nantasket Beach 2003-2012 slideshow
See this project by the same name here >>>>.
June 2012
Monday – 6/11/2012
Raised $1 million at investor meeting with UThisMe LLC.
Tuesday – 6/19/12
35th wedding anniversary. Tennis lesson in the morning. Went to movie in Millerton. Best Marigold Hotel. Then dinner at Escoffier Restaraunt at CIA in Hyde Park. Excellent and extravagant.
Wednesday – 6/20/2012
Temperature reached 96 by 1pm. Retreated to bedroom at 4pm. Spent most of the day catching up on bills and other personal admin. Sent letter to Jesse returned by HK post office for inadequate address to their new address.
Talked with Harvey Meyerson. Spent evening in AC’d tv room.
Thanksgiving and Other Goofiness in Berkeley Heights
The Warm Up
Karen and I made our annual Thanksgiving pilgrimage to Berkeley Heights and the Morgan-Ortons. This year we went via Roosevelt Island in NYC to drop of exhibition prints from our October show Street Photography / Surveillance with Bojune Kwon.
Ed went upscale on the wine for this meal
Wednesday evening dinner was cooked by Mr. Wonderful who brought back an old favorite for a re-run, meatloaf. This is the same meatloaf that was the subject of several earlier postings here. Of course all of this attention on a dish which has no recipe necessitated some head scratching. Once I got started in Meredith’s kitchen (I know that Ed makes rice and beans and other delicacies there, too, but this is Meredith’s kitchen) she hung around to kibitz. This lead to the discovery, not surprising given her penny pinching propensities, that she added oatmeal to her meatloaf too. The Wheatena I include was a novelty for her but I left out the carrots that hers included. Since my earlier jiggling of the memory banks I recalled that I also added either canned diced tomatoes or tomato juice to give some fluid for the cooking of the oatmeal and Wheetena. Spices include variably, basil, garlic, red pepper, black pepper, Worcestershire sauce, Pickapeppa, and catsup. Actually, the catsup is a required sealant for the surface of the meatloaf.
Not to get carried away further with TMI (where is Nyla when I need her steadying editorial hand), I also made a dish that was a real novelty for the Morgan-Ortons, kasha varnishke. My original plan was to make a basic Russian kasha, but Karen demanded the Jewish variant familiar in the US. I followed a recipe (this happens occasionally) at yourjewishmother.wordpress.com.
Thanksgiving Day
Since Meredith has to put in an appearance at the annual football contest between her high school and the local rival New Providence HS, we arrived fashionably late half way through the second period and departed after the half time extravaganza marching band foolery. Always the opportunist, Meredith stopped to feed the fish in her classroom after filling up on the the adulation of the crowd.
Before we could get Ed to peel a few potatoes, the following goofiness broke out:
Andrea, Noah, and Nyla arrived. Then next door neighbors Roland and Andrea. The feast was ready to begin. Karen took this panoramic shot over dessert. (Click on the image to see it full size)
Novelty Item
We had not noticed this little bit of wit from Meredith earlier. This inspired by one of Ed’s bad habits. Strikes many that there must be many more of these hidden about and to come. Ed has a lot of bad habits.
This is just to the left of the front door.
