Backstretch Gives You A Front Row Seat for the Real Race Meet SARATOGA SPRINGS – The old, historic red-and-white Racecourse takes a beating – on Friday, Saturday and Sunday particularly – when it appears the “Watching Where I Am Walking Is Against My Religion” convention is back in town again… Monday’s are a lot...
Croquet on the Green: Not Just Any Tuesday Afternoon
SARATOGA SPRINGS (Tuesday, August 1) – Cue music, please… Let it settle in, and scroll awhile…. this is the long version of the song, so take your time. Let’s play… …and let us savor… It’s a cliche’ of course, but it works here… it’s hard to believe the Moody Blues didn’t write this song...
Planet Mandy: A Feast For All My Senses
‘Fire Feast On The Farm’ At Pitney Meadows SARATOGA SPRINGS – Journey’s lyric, “Just a small town girl…” is beyond apropos for me. I was raised in apple country, in a town where my graduating class was 96. A town where people worked in acres – not in hours. So it made perfect sense...
When in Need of Knead: Get Pampered at Polo!
SARATOGA SPRINGS – Editor’s Note: In my previous post about the Saratoga Polo Association’s 2017 opening match (see it here), I indicated that the experience of attending was a great two-hour mimi-vacation to pamper yourself, to get away and reconnect with your senses while not leaving town: “…I marvel at the pageantry, appreciate being...