Thursday Nights at Grand Central Market is the topic of my article today in  The Larchmont Buzz.   I’m glad Jay and I were able to get over to the market the other night because now I have to get busy packing.  I leave on Monday for Florida where I’m attending Chain Store Age‘s Executive SPECS Conference.  We’ll stay in the West Palm Beach area until November 7th when we leave for Santo Domingo, the capital of The Dominican Republic.  It’s going to be an entirely different downtown experience working at a school for 500 children, many of whom are orphans.  We’ll be helping to install a computer lab  and then spending the rest of our time playing with the children at this school as well as spending time with the children at a few other schools and orphanages in the area .  The Dominican trip is very much inspired by Nick who at 13 years-old wanted to help kids in the Dominican Republic knowing how much baseball is part of their culture.  Nick collected used baseball equipment from his little league teammates and sent it over to The  Dominican.   For our trip the  Notre Dame High School team is donating between 15-20  used baseball gloves for Jay to bring with him on the trip.  He better be sure there’s ice over there to put on his elbow!

In the meantime, work will be finishing up on the loft we purchased in the Eastern Columbia Building.  We plan to move in on Sunday, November 16th.  Before and after pictures will be coming!