Top 10 Dessert Recipes (all taken from Moosewood by Mollie Katzen)
10. No-Fault Pumpkin Pie
9. Apple Strudel
8. Banana-Cream Cheese Pie
7. Berry Sorbet
6. Banana Bread
5. Crunchy-Top Peach Pie
4. Bread Pudding
3. Orange Cake
2. Moosewood Fudge Brownies
1. Lemon Pound Cake with Lemon Icing
Sharon's Best Novels {she read all female authors this year}
(1) Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
(2) The Feast by Margaret Kennedy
(3) The Wall by Marlen Haushofer
(4) Passing by Nella Larsen
(5) The Street by Ann Petry
David's Best Novels
(1) A Life and Times of Fryderyk Chopin by Alan Walker
(2) In Our Likeness by Bryan Vandyke
(3) When the World Goes Quiet by Gian Sardar
(4) The Last Green Valley by Mark Sulliva
(5) An Age of Winters by Gemma Livier
Books Read and Discussed Together by Sharon and Alexi - Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America by Julia Lee
Book Read Aloud by David to Mateo - The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
Top 10 Public Art in NYC (& 1 European Country)
10. To Let the Sky Know by Ana Maria Hernando @ Madison Square Park
9. Star Light Star Bright @ 140 Broadway
8. Appearances @ Fort Tryon Park {featuring "Stardust" by Elizabeth Akamatsu, "Golden Tree" by Katharina Chichester, "Human Invasion" by Dorothy Palanza, "Udd" by Wolf, "Everyone" by M.J. Levy Dickson and "An Accordance of Forces (Seawall for a Hilltop)" by Rosy Keyser
7. Domino Effect by Ingrid Ingrid @ Fosun Plaza
6. "On Growth" by Kapwani Kiwanga, "WHAT IF THEY BARK?" by Cosima von Bonin, "THANK YOU DARLiNG" by Lily van der Stokker, "Curtain Call" by Karon Davis, "secondary forest" by Giulia Cenci and "Old Tree" by Pamela Rosenkranz @ High Line (ALL FEMALE ARTISTS in Springtime!)
5. The Great Elephant Migration: A Coexistence Story by The Coexistence Collective (200 indigenous artisans in India) @ various public spaces in Chelsea
4. The Bridge (Augmented Reality Experience) by Nona Hendryx, XR Artistist SUTU and Eyejack @ Lincoln Center
3. Divine Pathways by Anne Paterson @ Cathedral of St. John the Divine
2. Théâtre de la Dame de Coeur's giant puppets, Eria and Terrenis, part of Acupunk @ Lincoln Center's Josie Robertson Plaza
1. The Portal by Benediktas Gylys in Dublin, Ireland, and Flatiron District, NYC
Our Favorite At Home Grown-Up Movies
(1) Finding You
(2) Munich: The Edge of War
(2) Munich: The Edge of War
(3) Nyad
(4) Feast of the Seven Fishes
(5) Society of the Snow
(6) Against the Ice
(7) To Kill a Tiger
(8) Anatomy of a Fall
(9) The Judge
(10) Barbie
(11) The Eternal Memory
(12) American Symphony
Our Favorite At Home Family Movies
(1) How to Tame Your Dragon
(2) Elf
(2) Elf
(3) Big
(4) The Jungle Book
(5) Cats
Best Concert - Billy Joel {Mateo and Sharon saw the Piano Man during one of his last performances of his Madison Square Garden Residency}
Best Family Member Performance - Mateo and David performed at Kaufman Music Center's Day of Musical Action
Best Movie Our Entire Family Saw In a Movie Theater - Wonka
Best Tribeca Film Festival Movies - Power of the Dream seen by Sharon and David (documentary about the WNBA, particularly during the coronavirus pandemic) and Black Table seen by Sharon solo (documentary about black students @ Yale)
Best Film Festival in NYC - World Water Film Festival @ Columbia University (with a free water tasting of international bottled waters!)
Best Holiday Movie Sharon+ Mateo Saw At Home - The Polar Express
Best Family Holiday Movie Seen @ Home - Elf
Best New Year's Day Activity - Gingerbread City in South Street Seaport, Balloon Museum for Pop Up Air, Walk along Downtown Greenway by the East River and Ice Cream from Spoiled Parrot
Best Birthday Party - Pizza and Wonka Movie in AMC Movie Theater to celebrate Mateo turning a palindrome(!)
Best International Performance - Live Irish Music in Cork, Ireland
Best Yoga & Mindfulness - Down Dog Yoga & Meditation {Sharon meditated daily and did yoga on average once a week}
Best Sharon+Alexi+Mateo Event - M&M Experience and Store in Times Square
Best Broadway Musical - Back to the Future
Best Off Off Broadway Play - Attorney Client (Sharon and Future Lawyer Alxi went to see this together)
Best TV Series - Better Call Saul {only one Sharon and David watched and we finally finished it}
Best Travel Destinations
* Dublin, Ireland
* Cork, Ireland
* Covh, Ireland
* Ring of Kerry, Ireland
* Killarney National Park, Ireland
* Cliffs of Kerry and Cliffs of Moher, Ireland
* Catalunya, Spain
* Barcelona, Spain
* Jersey Shore
* Jellystone Campground, Maryland
* Heckscher State Park, Long Island
Best International Family Adventures - La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona and Summer Road Trip Through Ireland
Best Camping - tent camping at Jellystone Park in Maryland and beachfront cottage glamping for fall foliage camping in Heckscher State Park (again)
Best Halloween Event - SMS Halloween Party and Trick-or-Treating in Dumont
Best New York Vegan Restaurant - The Witches Brew (on Long Island)
Best International Vegan Restaurant - B*12 in Girona, Spain (at their brand new location)
Best Pick-Your-Own Fruit - Apples @ Windy Acre Orchard in Long Island
Best Sporting Event - Alexi and Mateo's weekend travel soccer games AND seeing the Liberty win the WNBA Finals at Barclays Center in Brooklyn
Best Holiday Event - Manhattan Christmas Shopping Adventure and seeing the Rockefeller Tree
Best Holiday Event - Manhattan Christmas Shopping Adventure and seeing the Rockefeller Tree
Best View of NYC - Central Park West on Inflation Eve
Top 5 Reasons to Love New York City at the End of 2024
(1) FOOD
(2) SOCCER
(3) ROBOT PUPPETS, AUGMENTED REALITY and CHAT GPT
(4) VOLUNTEERING
(5) THEATER DEVELOPMENT FUND TIXX to BROADWAY, OPERA and the BALLET
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