In New York wine industry circles, Yannick Benjamin is known as one of the best sommeliers. He learned the trade as a young man at places like Jean-Georges and Le Cirque. His work in the hospitality industry took on new meaning when he had a car accident in 2003 at the age of 25, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down.

After earning a sommelier certification the following year, Mr. Benjamin began devoting some of his energy to supporting other people with disabilities. He and a friend, Alex Elegudin, started the nonprofit Wheeling Forward, which offers a variety of services and programs. Another non-profit organization, Wine on Wheels, grew out of it, with Mr. Benjamin using his connections to raise money and “raise awareness in the hospitality industry that people with disabilities should be treated with respect and dignity.”

In 2021, Mr. Benjamin put his vision to the test by opening Contento in East Harlem with his friend George Gallego. The restaurant quickly became known as a model of accessibility in dining, with adjustments for wheelchair users, a menu in Braille and adaptable cutlery.

Mr. Benjamin, 46, was raised in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen by French immigrant parents, and last year he and his wife, Heidi Turzyn Benjamin, opened Beaupierre Wines & Spirits nearby. The couple lives with their dog Amélie in a two-bedroom apartment in the Concourse section of the Bronx.

EARLY BIRD I love waking up in the morning. From 4:30 am to about 8:30 am I am free from any form of anxiety. It is time that I own. I don’t have to worry about a phone call or anything like that. The first thing I always try to do in the morning – I have one of these little timers – is practice the ‘pomodoro’ method. I’ll keep it on for about 20, 25 minutes. I go straight to my water cooler, drink a glass of water, electrolytes, brush my teeth. Then I immediately switch to what I call my own form of meditation.

OLD TEXTS I am a great practitioner of Stoicism. Weekends are my time for reading in the mornings. I often read many books: “The Discourses of Epictetus”; I read a lot about Marcus Aurelius; I love all things Seneca. I’ll highlight a lot of their stuff.

What is crucial for me is that I write to myself in the same way that Marcus Aurelius did in the book ‘Meditations’. When he wrote that book, he didn’t really write it for other people to read; it was a diary for himself. It’s a way to improve yourself, to ask yourself, “Whoa, Yannick, why did you get upset because the elevator was broken?” Or, “Was it really necessary for you to snap at that person?” Just ask questions and make sure you learn good habits.

ADAPTIVE TRAINING Sundays and Saturdays are the days when I like to push my workouts to the limit and exhaust myself. At least well over an hour of cardio, that’s my hand crank – equivalent to a Peloton bike, but only for someone who has only an upper body, because I’m paralyzed, right? I do adaptive jumping. I do my adaptive burpees. I’m heading to Access Initiatives, the wellness and physical fitness center, to see my colleague and friend George Gallego [the founder]. We’re going to do the New York City half marathon [on Sunday] together. We have run a number of marathons together, full marathons. He is also my business partner in the Contento restaurant.

STRATEGY SESSION We like going to Contento; on Sundays it is closed and it is just nice to be in your own place. We love talking about what’s going on in the nonprofit world and what our next goals are. But also to talk about the restaurant.

I mean, there’s ups, there’s downs. Especially now, the restaurant industry is a bit challenging. Fortunately, we don’t have high overhead; we’re a small space so it’s good. But we realize we are in a city of 26,000 restaurants. And one day you’re a cool kid, and the next day you’re kind of forgotten.

NOTRE DAME I usually like to visit the Church of Notre Dame. If there is no mass, I just sit there and do a little meditation, staying in silence – more of a gratitude for all the good things in my life. I love the feel of church. It gives me great joy to go there and find that peace.

One of my favorite quotes comes from ‘Sound of Metal’. It’s about someone who goes deaf, and one of the scenes says that the world can be a damn cruel place, but it’s those moments of silence – they’re the closest you get to the kingdom of God, and those moments of silence will make you never betrayed. You. We need those moments to gain some clarity. Because we know that the next day we will be back in the rat race.

FANTASTIC CHICKEN One of my favorite restaurants is a place called Benoit. I could go there, have a little brunch or lunch with a friend. And I always like to organize a good, solid meeting with someone I haven’t spoken to in a while. Mostly it’s about Wine on Wheels and what the future holds. Their roasted chicken is the best on earth.

WINES AND DRINKS It gives me comfort that I was able to open a store in the same building in which I was born and raised. Most people experience trauma sometimes. They just want to get away from the place where they grew up. And I understand that. But in my case, what an opportunity to be so close, next to my sister who lives one building away, and see my nephews all the time. My mother comes downstairs and always brings me food. I’ve had some tough moments in my life, but at the end of the day, I’m one of the happiest people on earth.

MAMANS SPECIALTIES I know it’s not to everyone’s taste, but I always say my mother is a master of organ meats. She does kidney, liver or something like tripe. It’s so good. She always surprises me. And then we catch up, and as you can imagine, we have a lot to talk about because my dad just passed away. But she is cheerful. She is one of the strongest individuals I have ever met.

NO-JUDGMENT WINE I really don’t drink that much, even though I’m in the wine industry. It’s the one night of the week that I can actually drink a glass of wine without dissecting it or judging it, and just enjoy the simplicity of it, the stimulation of it. My wife and I just enjoy each other’s company. And with our little dog, Amelie, we watch what’s on TV, have fun conversations and keep things very simple. We don’t really talk about politics. We just talk about really nothing, but sometimes nothing is great.

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Although Carol Sudhalter’s first love was the flute, she was seduced by the saxophone early in her career as a jazz musician.

“Playing different instruments helps me expand my emotional palette,” she said. “The saxophone has the opposite personality of the flute, which tends to be politely small, and I can express a wide range of emotions with it: it can be gruff, aggressive and gentle.”

In the early days of her career in the late 1970s, Ms. Sudhalter attracted a lot of attention because female players were rare.

“Female saxophonists like Camille Thurman and Lakecia Benjamin are superstars now,” Ms. Sudhalter, 81, said. “It is a point of pride and joy for me that the virtuosity and recognition of female players has increased so much since then.”

Ms. Sudhalter, who grew up in a musical family in Boston and graduated from Smith College, got her big break in 1978 when she moved to New York City to join Latin Fever, the first all-female Latin band. She founded the 18-member Astoria Big Band and has been a music teacher for more than four decades. She gives private sax, flute and piano lessons to 20 students each week on Long Island.

She has lived in the same two-bedroom apartment in Astoria, Queens since 1980. Ms. Sudhalter used to have roommates, but today she shares the space with six saxophones, three clarinets, three flutes, a piccolo, a bass clarinet and a flugelhorn.

CREATURE OF HABIT I get up between 7 and 8 am, the same time as every day. I set an alarm, but I wake up before it goes off. And I always have the same breakfast: muesli without sugar and yogurt, a lot of vitamins and a cup of black coffee.

I also do the culinary preparation for the week. As a door-to-door music teacher, I pack lunch at least four times a week. I make a big pot of soup, usually vegetables or beans, sauces like pesto, mayonnaise and horseradish, and other dips like hummus and tzatziki to brighten up the dishes. I also bake a batch of lemon cookies with almond flour sweetened with monk fruit, or I make banana bread.

PLAY FORWARD Classes start at noon. Although some classes are virtual, students benefit more from an in-person meeting from January through March when they are studying for state music exams, so I’m usually in the car by 11 a.m. and usually home by 4 p.m. I really enjoy seeing how my students are making progress. It is one of the highlights of my career, exactly the same as when I was invited to Indiana two years ago to play the premiere of the ‘Spiritual Collage: A Suite for Saxophone Quartet and Orchestra’ by jazz great Mickey Tucker, which was the sensation of a lifetime.

A twelve-year-old piano student I’ve been teaching since he was six is ​​studying Rachmaninoff and zooming through a Beethoven piece. He has progressed so much that I recently sent him to another teacher. And I’ve been teaching Ryan Richter tenor and alto sax since he was ten. He’s in high school now and he’s digging through school jazz band music and Charlie Parker and Sonny Rollins.

BREAKING RHYTHM When classes are canceled, I like to go to North Square on Washington Square for the jazz brunch. For $20 I get a tasty meal – I usually order salad or smoked salmon – and an even better 90 minutes of music. Château le Woof, a coffee shop, is around the corner from my apartment, so I go outside for the jazz brunch. I’ve had performances there. The players, a duo or trio, are incredibly technical and beautiful, and people bring their dogs.

The ferry is in my backyard. You can go to East 90th Street or walk all the way to Wall Street. For me it’s more about the ride: it’s meditative and soothing.

My treat is going to Manhattan to see the special guests’ performances at the New York Flute Club. The concerts are once a month and the players are excellent.

PERFORM I lead the Louis Armstrong Legacy Monthly Jazz Jam and the Astoria Big Band at Flushing Town Hall, so I’m rehearsing after student classes are over.

Will it be tenor sax, alto sax, baritone, flute, clarinet, piano or singing? It’s so wonderful to have a choice. I play them alternately. The most important thing is to do it when energy is highest, which for me is mid-afternoon. I’ve had Covid three times, so I give myself long breaks so I don’t strain my muscles.

I choose and practice one tune related to Louis Armstrong. The other tune will be related to the season or current events in some way. I choose the instrument based on the feeling of the melody as I understand it. I’m on the top floor of a two-family house and I don’t have to worry about making noise because I’ve lived there for a long time and my landlady likes the music.

HOOK UP At six o’clock I sit in front of the TV and watch “PBS NewsHour.” This is non-negotiable unless I am performing or attending a concert. I think it has the best news because it’s not sensational, it gives a broad spectrum of what’s happening and there are no commercials. Dinner is a snack, usually boiled vegetables or a small portion of fish or a few shrimps.

CLASSIC LOOKS Around seven o’clock I relax by watching some mindless TV. I love detective series and old, nostalgic shows. Maybe I’ll come across ‘Monk’, ‘Columbo’ or ‘Lawrence Welk’. For me, the adventure is surfing and seeing what I can find.

I’m in bed at 8:30 or 9:30. I might wake up in the middle of the night, but I don’t mind. I enjoy reading. ‘Better Living Through Birding’ by Christian Cooper, ‘The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life’ by David Brooks and ‘The Eight Mountains’ by Paolo Cognetti are the parts that are currently getting me through the night.

Dirk McCall de Palomá is a serious bon vivant in search of spicy and ethnic food, and a passionate connector of people. For the past two years, he also served as executive director of the Sunnyside Shines Business Improvement District, a city-funded nonprofit that promotes Sunnyside, Queens, as a destination.

“I help companies and empower communities,” says 55-year-old McCall de Palomá, who plans cultural celebrations. “People come to me with problems; I find solutions.”

The foodie in him is thrilled that he is leading Taste of Sunnyside Restaurant Week.

He grew up in Georgia and then migrated to New York in 1991 to attend graduate school in political science at Columbia University. In 1994, he began renting his one-bedroom apartment in Astoria, Queens, on the top floor of a four-story apartment.

“When you’re 30, it’s OK because you think, ‘This is great exercise. My ass looks great,” he said. “When I turned forty, I realized that I would have to live on the first floor. Now that I’m fifty, I wish I had a ride.”

Yet his love for his neighborhood overcomes the grueling climb, making him also very good at forgetting nothing at the top. He lives with his 12-year-old Norwegian forest mix cat Herbert.

NATURAL INCREASE My body kicks in around 6am and wakes me up. I do not drink coffee. I’m from Georgia – I drink Diet Coke. People are surprised when I tell them, but it has caffeine in it. I also want the carbonated one. Then I feed Herbert, a big, fluffy, loud boy with an opinion about everything and who expects breakfast as soon as he sees me move.

READ AND MAKE A LIST Over the next few hours I follow the news that I get from the internet: Joe.My.God, an LGBT news site, which I supplement with Politico, The New York Times and The New York Post. Then I make lists of the errands I need to run, the phone calls I need to make, and the emails I need to send. I like lists. You can cross things off and that gives you a feeling of satisfaction.

DISTANT HUSBAND I WhatsApp with my husband, who is currently stuck in Bucaramanga, Colombia. We do this several times during the day. We met on Grindr in 2019 and got married in 2021. When he went to visit his family, Covid was still an issue. And even though travel restrictions have been lifted, he is struggling to get permission from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to re-enter. It’s been terribly lonely without him. He loves to send voice messages so I enjoy it and listen to it all day long.

TO CONNECT I showered and got dressed at 10am. Then I take the Q104 bus on my street, which I take to 49th Street and Queens Boulevard. I walk the first six blocks of Greenpoint Avenue so I can interact with merchants and store owners and make sure there are no problems: that the streets are properly swept, that the traffic lights work, and that no furniture is damaged. I like to stop in the small specialty shops like Parrot Coffee, which has jams, marinated olives and artichokes and different types of soaps, and Chakra Cafe, which is Turkish. They sell breakfast sandwiches and baklava, which are delicious.

GROUP ACTIVITIES A large part of my job involves planning cultural events for the Sunnyside community. Past events have included a Day of the Dead celebration, a Sunny Pride parade and Chuseok, a Korean harvest festival. It is important that communities see themselves reflected in programming and that public spaces help promote local commerce.

CONNECT WITH FRIENDS I’m usually at brunch at two o’clock. I am an evangelist for the region. My goal is to bring friends from Manhattan or the Bronx to Astoria who want to eat or drink with me and can’t because everyone is so busy. Brunch is usually easier. People don’t mind traveling on weekends. Astoria gets a bad rap because people think it’s far away. They haven’t discovered its beauty yet. I usually go to Salvatoria Kitchen and Bar, owned by a lesbian couple. Their pupusas are great, there’s also The Shady Lady and Fresco’s Grand Cantina.

INGREDIENT HUNT I cook quite a bit, which relaxes me. I like hearty southern food that reminds me of home. I’m always grocery shopping or looking for interesting ingredients. Last week it was the Witte Beer in Vlissingen to get frozen dumplings and wontons. It’s the biggest hole in the wall. Now I’m on the hunt for Armenian cracker bread, which I researched and discovered is sold in Rego Park.

FORGING CONNECTIONS I coordinate two different groups: Out Astoria, an LGBT social group for Astoria and Western Queens, which I co-founded with a friend in 2006; and AstoriaCentric, where 20 to 30 people from the neighborhood come to a local restaurant. It makes me happy to bring people together. There is a sense of joy that is palpable. When I was single I used the apps, which isn’t very personal or social, and it made me feel part of something. Now that I’m married, I live on my own, so having a sense of community has become important.

TV lover I’ll be home at nine o’clock. I love RuPaul, who has a drag racing empire. I watch all the franchises, but that can cut into my ‘Eurovision’ time, which I stream on YouTube, on my TV. It is a national European songwriting competition between 26 to 40 participating countries. Each song can last a maximum of three minutes. Abba got their start here and won for the Swedes. Celine Dion got her big break representing Switzerland. It’s a great way to find new artists who are unique. I become obsessed with songs. This year in Finland there’s a song that reminds me of the trashy Eurodance from the 90s, which I love, and allows me to relive my glory days. The people I want to win usually don’t.

LOUD NIGHTS The lights go out at midnight. My block is particularly loud; so do my neighbors, so I have a white noise machine and sound-deadening curtains on the window. When I can’t calm my mind, I take notes on a notebook I keep next to my bed. When I’m really dizzy, I tend to write strange things that I can never read again the next day.

New Yorkers who take the subway on Sundays may not know the name Jose LaSalle, but they may have seen him in his orange safety vest.

Mr. LaSalle, 55, is deputy chief of weekend service diversions and coordination for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which oversees the city’s subways and buses. That makes him the person responsible for troubleshooting and handling customer complaints at stations when there are delays and service interruptions. He is known around the office as the ‘weekend shift czar’.

He grew up in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood, but today he lives in a two-bedroom apartment in Manhattan’s East Village with his wife, Janet Rosario, 56, a New York City Transit conductor.

NO KEY. BUT: SUCCEED. Every Sunday that I’m not on vacation, I wake up at 5:30 am. As soon as I wake up, I get in the habit of checking Slack. I check if there are any diversions, things I can prepare for. Anything that affects customers – a bottleneck or anything that could affect their travel time – I check.

I press my Breville espresso machine, turn on Eyewitness News channel 7, and start showering so I can get out of the house at 6:15. Then I am mobile. I try to get to my first stop at seven o’clock. Where there is a lot of customer confusion, that’s where I want to go. This is often a metro station, but it can also be a bus stop.

DUCKING, DOVING Things always come up. You have to be like a boxer, diving and dodging left, dodging right. And you’re only as good as your team, so I have a lot of good teammates who help me dodge and not get hit. Lately we’ve had these operations in Coney Island, so I’ll go there first and then go back to the city, but then something might call us to Queens. I focus my attention on stations and bus stops where we want to make sure everything works efficiently. In some cases these are planned problems that we will check; in some cases they are not planned.

MULTILINGUAL When I arrive somewhere, I try to see how we can make the customer experience better for people. If there is a really problematic issue, I may be in one place for two, three hours or half a day.

In Queens, we worked on a major project dealing with accessibility issues related to the Americans With Disabilities Act. Several stations were affected: Queens Plaza, Roosevelt Avenue. There was a situation where you couldn’t get to Manhattan from Queens, so we had a big push to get customers as they got off the seven trains to go down to catch various other lines into Manhattan.

On line N we had bus and walking transfers to a station five minutes away. Queens’ demographics being what they are, we want to make sure announcements are made in Korean, Spanish, and Chinese in addition to English. We want every customer to be able to get information in the language they are familiar with.

COMMON TOWN HERO I have been with the MTA for 31 years. I worked every day, every holiday. It’s just part of the course. Sometimes these challenges we face every day make my day. That’s what I was hired for, to solve problems. I see it as a challenge to meet and exceed everyone’s expectations. Yes, it’s a tough job. But if it wasn’t a hard job, I don’t think I would want it. It gives me the opportunity to do good for New Yorkers.

FAST HOT What I eat depends on where I’m going. I grew up in Brooklyn, so whenever I go to Brooklyn, there’s a donut shop I like to go by in Greenpoint Peter Pan on Manhattanlaan. I’ll get a Boston Cream. I need that sugar fix. When I’m in StuyTown, I go there Ess-a-Bagel. I’m trying intermittent fasting, so that means eating twice a day in an eight-hour period.

AMBUSH I get bullied all the time. I have the habit of wearing my civil service vest. That will get you ambushed and knocked down, or however you want to put it, if there’s any trouble. You just have to stay calm and understand that people’s frustration is not with you, but with where they are.

As much as I try to tell customers that we have all these applications and emails that go out to the public about our planned work, not everyone checks their smartphone to see what time the train is coming. If I could get all our New Yorkers together at once, I’d tell them to use the app and check the weekend email so they know what’s going on. But that doesn’t always happen, so I always get questions. I like to give people their options.

THE BOSS The last time I was out of work on a Sunday was at seven o’clock. That was the Sunday of the New York City Marathon; I don’t want anything to go wrong. I’m usually done at half past three or four o’clock. I’ll either head straight home or stop at Urban Market if we’re having dinner at home. I get an order from Janet, she’s the boss. If we want to give Janet a break from cooking, we’re going to do that El Castillo de Jagua or Scarr’s Pizza for pepperoni, cheese and honey on a slice.

24/7 At home we laze around and catch up on everything that’s going on with the grandkids – they’re 9, 6, 6 and 1. We’ll FaceTime them. I’m a Knicks, Mets, Giants fan, so if there’s a game on I might turn it on. But for the most part, I still check my phone at work. As a weekend guru or weekend czar, I have to see what, if anything, changes or whether my bosses will contact me.

QUIET AND STRAIGHT I go to bed around half past eight, because the next morning I get up at 5 am. I have to say that as a New Yorker I take my job seriously. We’re used to queuing for things, but I don’t want our subway journey to be a long line of trains. I want to get everyone there efficiently. I see that these weekend people are often workers going to work. I want to do well for them.

Scott Goldshine was a picky eater with a very short list of favorite foods.

“Until high school it was cake, scrambled eggs, cheeseburgers, fries and a little fried rice,” he said. The reasons for its special taste were difficult to determine.

“My parents took me to a psychologist, who was the first to make me eat a hot dog and a slice of pizza,” he said. And his unique preferences persisted beyond adolescence: He didn't eat cold foods until he was about 40 years old.

All this is especially surprising when you consider that Mr. Goldshine, 63, has worked at the Upper West Side supermarket Zabar's — an emporium of Jewish and international culinary delights — for 46 years. He started as a garbage collector at the age of seventeen and worked his way up to general manager.

Spending time with the diverse offerings at Zabar's eventually taught Mr. Goldshine to try new things. Now he enjoys the deli's corned beef, pastrami sandwiches, prosciutto, knishes, chopped liver and Ibérico ham.

“If my father were alive today, he would be amazed at how far we have come,” he said.

Sunday is a workday for Mr. Goldshine, who was born in the Bronx and lives on the Upper West Side with his wife, Jackie Goldshine, 61.

EYES OPEN When I open my eyes it's: “Oh, [expletive]! I really don't feel like going in today.” This is how Sunday usually starts. Years ago I made a deal with myself that if I let work get in the way of going out and listening to music, I will never hear music again in my life. I could be out until 5am and still get up at 7:30 to get ready for work.

ALWAYS ON My phone is on my bedside table. It is on 24 hours a day. So I'm used to getting calls and texts at 2, 3, 4 in the morning when there's a problem. Either an employee is sick, or he's been arrested, or it's a tragedy, or one of my musician friends has a problem. So I check to make sure there isn't a message I need to deal with immediately.

ON TIPONS AROUND Assuming none of that is the case, I drag myself out of bed. I try to tiptoe around the apartment. I don't like waking my wife. Sometimes I make it and she doesn't wake up, but often as I'm walking out the door I hear, “Where's my kiss?”

OZEMPIAN BABY I'm not a breakfast person. I love breakfast when I'm on vacation. For me, breakfast means: when I enter the store, I grab a muffin if I'm hungry. But my weight situation has changed over the years. I used to be very, very heavy. I have lost over 100 kilos. I was one of the first Ozempic babies before anyone knew what it was. And I'm happy to admit it. Food had always been a very big problem for me.

EIGHT BLOCKS, FIVE MINUTES Luckily I can walk to work, so I can leave five minutes before I have to be inside. It's eight blocks, but in a way I wish it was longer. Going to work is usually a mixture of calm and anxiety because I'm always worried. I listen to music or Howard Stern. Even though it's only a 10 minute walk, it keeps me on track when I get there.

You'd be wrong When I walk in, I immediately walk to the manager's desk and speak with the opening manager of the day. You might think that nothing happens between 5:30 PM and 9:00 AM, but you'd be wrong. Sometimes there are no problems. But sometimes the cooling fails. The bread deliveries did not show up on time. Half of the meat department had not yet arrived. The cutting machine is broken. A lot of things could happen, but I'm not going anywhere until we're done talking.

THE STROLL I start walking around the store, stopping at each department – ​​from the café to the warehouse, the cheese department, the kitchen, the fish – and speak to whoever is in charge at the time, see if they have . problems, check if everything is fine. Sometimes it's a short walk. Sometimes it's a long walk.

A PIECE There is a balcony where I have a few desks. I have cameras there so I can see what's going on. That's where I do a lot of my paperwork. It is actually located above the sales floor. I think it's very, very, very important to be down there. I have a rule: when it's busy, I lie on the floor. When it's not busy, I do my paperwork. I actually don't even eat lunch anymore. One piece of rugelach can keep me going for hours.

WHERE IS SCOTT? Saul Zabar is 95 and still visits every day. He's not really doing anything at the moment. We'll send the van to pick him up, and he has a helper. He sits in the front or he walks around and shops. I'm the first person he looks for when he comes in. If he doesn't see me, he says, 'Where's Scott? Where's Scott? When I'm standing on the balcony, I suddenly hear footsteps and I think: 'You don't have to come up here.' He's 95. He doesn't have to climb stairs.

EVERYONE IS CARE OF It's never dead, but eventually it slows down somewhat. There is a mini dinner rush that starts at about 4:30 PM and on Sundays can last until 5:30 PM, quarter 6. Since it is Sunday and the closing time is 6:00 PM, there are always people in the store. We still need to make sure everyone is taken care of. As long as you are in the store before we lock the door, there is nothing to worry about. It's usually me and three other store managers, so we're the last people to leave the store every night, no matter what. We are usually outside between 7:00 PM and 7:30 PM.

SCHOOL IS IN SESSION Sometimes my wife and I go out to eat. I've been known to take out my guys, my front-end managers, my deli manager, and a few other people. I taught them about great corned beef and pastrami. Not that ours isn't good, but it's not the same as when you go to, say, Katz's, where it's warm and incredible.

COCKTAIL FRANKEN Normally I go home and have dinner with my wife. There's usually a summary when I get home. But on this Sunday I'm watching the Super Bowl. I'm at work until about 6:25 and then I'm like, “Guys, you're on your own.” I run home. For my favorite Super Bowl dinner, I get Zabar's. We have these little mini cocktail franks. So my wife will cook that. Put a bowl next to me on the couch full of those little hot dogs. I love Nathan's fries more than anything. So she makes a whole bowl of Nathan's fries. I'll have my hot dogs. I'll have my fries. And I am extremely happy.

I'M LUCKY My wife sometimes falls asleep on the couch. Then, around midnight, I go to the other room where I have the computer and start watching music or reading. If I can get her up, I pick her up and drag her to bed. My bedtime is usually around 2am. I'm lucky I don't need much sleep.