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A few friends and I gather early Sunday mornings for gossip and coffee. Our favorite place is Caffe Reggio. It\u2019s dark and crowded with heavy furniture. It opened in 1927 when Italy was still a monarchy. There\u2019s an air of having stumbled into the attic of a dilapidated Italian palazzo. Cappuccino was brought to the U. S. by the owner and it\u2019s still delicious.<\/p>\n

Scarpetta is an NYC restaurant with the NYC buzz. Very Wall Street: Young buccaneers having a wonderful and noisy time in a crowded restaurant. We were slammed against a wall that separated us, barely, from the waiters going to and fro. It was like dining on the L. I. E. The signature spaghetti (oops sorry, pasta) dish looked appetizing but needed salt and the panna cotta dessert was predictable. The food is Italianate and the atmosphere is definitely Manhattan.<\/p>\n

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MTA Mural at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I attend The Garden & Forest Book Club held in Central Park\u2019s Arsenal. Why, you ask. Because I know very little about gardens and forests and am now surrounded by people who work in those areas. They are devoted to all aspects of their world. Our required reading has included treatises, histories, memoirs. The latest book is Peter Wohlleben\u2019s The Hidden Life of Trees.<\/em> We had a lively, mostly positive, discussion about this anthropomorphic approach to explaining the similar nature of trees and people. Peter Wohlleben is on YouTube.<\/p>\n

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M. T. A. Mural at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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MTA Mural at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

COMING SOON:<\/p>\n

Graphic Lessons<\/strong>: Recent widow Millie Fitzgerald applies for a private school teaching job, faints on a stabbed and dying man, deals with the only witness to the stabbing – a troubled nine year old, develops a crush on a NYPD detective and her dog dies.<\/p>\n

Graphic Lessons<\/strong>: NYPD Detective Steve Kulchek: something\u2019s eating at him: a failed marriage? surviving a car bomb? his girlfriend marrying his corrupt boss? screwing up an important case?<\/p>\n

Graphic Lessons<\/strong>: Nine year old Dana is the only witness who overhears three people fighting with George Lopez, the soon to be stabbed Windsor School kitchen worker. Who can she tell? Her mother who never listens or accuses her of lying? Her father who\u2019s started a new family in Singapore?<\/p>\n

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