The recent drop was mainly due to a downtrend in New York, especially that in the technology sector. So the rebound came as a great relief to investors here.

Foreign investors in particular are selling large-cap technology stocks like Sony. No one's worried about the fundamentals of individual companies, though. It's just that demand for international names is running very dry.

The current trend is to lock in profits from technology issues and shift money to defensives.

There are too many opportunities in New York. We can't live too far away.

Back then, my air fare on Eastern Airlines to fly from Florida to where Marge was stationed in New York was $16. It was the most important flight I ever made.

I was looking in the back of The New York Times for ads for homes in New Hampshire, and there weren't any, ... but there was this scrunched-up photograph of a supposedly Palladian villa outside of Venice.