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Tuesday May 22nd 2012

Posts Tagged ‘New York stories’

The People in My Neighborhood: In Memoriam, Chris Hondros

The People in My Neighborhood: In Memoriam, Chris Hondros

I’m still pretty shaken up by the death of Getty Images photographer Chris Hondros. When I met him, I was a fairly good way through my short-lived freelance editorial career, and, arguably, at the peak of it. I was a contributing editor for Hooked on the Outdoors [Read More]

Kickstart My Heart, Part II

Kickstart My Heart, Part II

So. While I was headed down to the gym earlier tonight (at 10:30! What a joke!) I was struck with the most certain terrifying thought that if I didn’t write down all of the wedding weekend festivities, I’d just…forget. I mean, hey, we all say things like, [Read More]

The People in My Neighborhood: The Planner

The People in My Neighborhood: The Planner

Sometimes, you meet people in one capacity, and you never think that you’ll see them in other capacities. Sometimes our friends are silo’ed. They stay in their individual little places. We call them when we want specific things: I have friends I got out Drinking [Read More]

Photodump

Photodump

Alison and I went to the New York Botanical Gardens last weekend. We had a terrific time despite hot and sticky climes, and I took some photos. So nice to see some new plants and immerse myself in greenery. [Read More]

The People in My Neighborhood: The Cyclist

The People in My Neighborhood: The Cyclist

I still remember the first time I ever saw Aileen outside of our usual haunts. We were both on the Upper West Side. She had a plastic carrier bag in one hand and was standing in front of a plate-glass window looking at some clothing items. The shop was Clothingline, when [Read More]

The People In My Neighborhood: The Teacher

The People In My Neighborhood: The Teacher

Almost at the bottom of my second cup of coffee. In accordance with my self-imposed rule of posting more than once a month on this thing, here’s a series of posts about the past week and the people in it. But really, it’s about the varied people in my life, and [Read More]

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Fugue State

Fugue State

I took half of Friday to recharge my batteries and see The Met’s annual collaboration with The Costume Institute, [Read More]

hodge-podge brain dump

hodge-podge brain dump

1. I just had a brainfart and tried to go to the blogger platform to add this post. As much as I love the flexibility [Read More]

The Deployment Diet: Lose Five Pounds! Fast!

The Deployment Diet: Lose Five Pounds! Fast!

You’d think two weeks in a foreign country would be a recipe for diet disaster. No more! I recently found myself [Read More]

April is the month of Nostalgia

April is the month of Nostalgia

We were watching Objectified the other night. It’s a documentary about the everyday things we use in life, and [Read More]

The avocado Audrey

The avocado Audrey

Feed me,  Seymour! It’a my first-ever avocado sprout! Cross your fingers for it! I hope it comes out of its husk [Read More]

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