What a glorious day! It was an absolutely gorgeous morning, 70 and sunny, so we made a family excursion to Prospect Park. We have been making almost daily journeys there for the past several months; Ivy and Miles love riding their bikes and we have a well-established route around the lake, which I have been really enjoying on my new longboard! Today was truly special and I will never forget exactly where on our loop we were the moment Alaina said to me: "They're about to call it..." and instantly the entire Nethermead erupted in euphoric hoots and joyful hollers.…

October 10 (Andrew's Birthday!) Earliest start to my season ever! It was at a mall in New Jersey, but it was with my kids and the snow was consistent and the turns felt GREAT! Big Snow American Dream has been a fantasy teased by reality for over a decade; a derelict development dead and dormant after the 2008 financial crisis. A giant metal sloped barn, rising several hundred feet above the parking lot it shares with MetLife Stadium (where the 0-5 Jets were losing to the Cardinals in front of 82,500 empty seats), chilled to 28 degrees and covered in…

We are headed home to Brooklyn in 24 hours! We packed up hastily and evacuated the city on March 14, as the virus began spinning out of control. There was very little understanding of what was happening at that time and it became clear over the next few weeks that the city was infected much more than anybody realized; peak hospitalizations and deaths would occur about a month later, which we watched in horror from seclusion in Warwick. Fortunately, the numbers have diminished steadily in the city since then, although they have risen almost everywhere else in this country as…