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Wednesday February 8th 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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7×7=one grateful blogger

7×7=one grateful blogger

Awhile ago, my Whidbey colleague Charlotte Morganti nominated me for a 7×7 link award! I wish I knew what the [Read More]

Losing It

Things I have Lost in the past half-year: 1. A gold bracelet. Packed it away “for safekeeping” a decade [Read More]

Random gorgeousness

Random gorgeousness

So. Paula Stanton, who made my wedding dress, also made this recently. I saw it and wanted to Pinterest it, but [Read More]

The Bi-Ped speaks about the Quadruped

My latest essay, “Bi-Pedal to Quadrupedal Communications, Key of ‘B’,” appears in the latest [Read More]

Holy caca

I have an incredible backlog of posts to write, but I’m at SeaTac now, and my brain is still buzzing buzzing with [Read More]

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@Charlotte, I love the Dennis Lehanes, but I'm also looking forward to discovering new reads from you. It seems we have Read the post

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thanks for reading, Amalia, and for the comment, too! you're absolutely right: someone is always listening. that's Read the post

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I agree Yishun, I think that's why I am still teaching the craft classes after all these years(and plenty of nonsense Read the post

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I would have *never* taken you for a mild spice grrrl. Evar. Read the post

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