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...Slow down. When you're far from home without another adult to spell you, taking your time is safer--and sometimes more fun--than rushing to your destination. New Yorker Mary Farrell, a single mom, says her seven- and 10-year-old sons still remember the rest stop they took on their way to Vermont a couple of years ago. They spent two hours by a stream, throwing rocks and watching caterpillars...
...also a New Yorker. Fast forward 10 years to the summer of 1989. I was working the overnight shift at CBS network radio and living in Spanish Harlem, in the heart of the Puerto Rican barrio. One steaming summer night at 4 a.m., on my way to work, I rolled down the window of the cab and heard ranchera music blaring out of a boom box. A small group of Mexicanos was singing along with a melancholy tune. My sleepy eyes popped open, my head shot out the window, and I gave a little grito. I was witnessing history...
...years later (and much to my family's chagrin at first), I married an artist from the Dominican Republic. In 1996 my son was born. Raul Ariel Jesus de Todos los Santos Perez-Hinojosa, we joked, would be the first Domini-Mex New Yorker. My boy is now 5 years old, and my daughter Maria Yurema Guadalupe de los Indios Perez-Hinojosa just turned 3 this past Cinco de Mayo (and, no, it wasn't a scheduled C-section...
Though he considers himself a New Yorker and his wife is involved in New York City politics, Rubin moved to Miami, Fla., at age nine where he attended public schools...
Competitive sports can be amazing entertainment, and it can also be amazingly frustrating. Playing to win brings out the best in athletes, but it also means that all of those athletes, at some point, are going to lose. Roger Angell of The New Yorker believes that baseball is the best sport because, as in life itself, there is more failure than success. After all, even the best hitters in the Major Leagues only reach base three out of 10 at-bats. There is more Met than Yankee in all of us, as Angell says. That statement, so true after last...