Get out your elf hats for the yearly tour of downtown's finest holiday locales, starting at the Ice Rink at PPG place. (For you diehards, the R-to-the-R begins at Phipps at 6:30.) There is evidently some cool new stuff at the refurbished Market Square, a bike-powered light-up tree, more gingerbread houses than can be seen anywhere, and the famous creche of course. Also the pathetic menorah at the City-County Building (please get it together next time, Chabad!)
Our run this morning was through the welcome flats and elegant manses of Shadyside, where we started by getting a glimpse of my favorite Xmas lights: translucent floating stars on the corner of Hastings and Selwyn - a block from Susan Hunt's house, starting point for many past runs (Susan, if you're still on the list, we miss you!)
Setting off our chat today was a NYT article this past week on parents dealing with their newly adult children, over which there was much commiseration, until it became clear that it was just as hard for newly adult children to deal with their parents, and then we got on to babies, and epidurals - in fact the whole parent-child thing is just crazy. But, Elaine reminded us, if you take the power pose you can deal with anything!
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