A Digital Post Card from Guy and Andrew Andrew has retired, as of last Friday. So we’re happy to report that the first thing we’re doing is taking a vacation. Amtrak and Canada’s VIA Rail offer the Maple Leaf service to Toronto, and we’re taking advantage of it. We’re traveling along the Hudson River Valley and the …
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Guy’s Journal: The State Funeral
Queen Elizabeth II (1926-2022) Yesterday was a special day in the lives of millions of people throughout the world, and I’m grateful to have been among the lucky ones on “our side of the pond” who were able to get up at 4AM to witness this event. As it happened, my favorite image of all …
Independence Day: What Were We Celebrating? What’s Coming Next?
Like many Americans, we New Yorkers have a grand fireworks tradition for closing out our Independence Day celebrations. Fireworks burst all over America, and here in New York, crowds love to gather along the East River (sometimes the Hudson) for the great spectacle. Others of us gather at parties to watch the fireworks, or we, too, …
The Frick’s Angel
[Special thanks to Kevin Manion for his generous assistance with this post.] Since you are reading what is generally referred to as “Guy’s personal blog,” it makes a certain kind of sense to say, once again, how we New Yorkers seem to have a special appreciation for what is available to us. Why? Because we …
The Russia-Ukraine War: What Do Young People Think?
It’s probably never easy to figure out how to react to what we hear and learn in wartime, in any war. The Russia-Ukraine war is no exception. Many of us – along with many other citizens throughout the world – found some level of comfort with what we thought were the effects of our famous …
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