**I just bought a ticket back to California to visit with friends & family (yay!) and thought it was time for another post on the places I consider to be my ‘hometowns.’ Consider it an impromptu and slightly disorganized mini-series. ;) ** ‘Home’ is such a loaded word. It has at once vague and incredibly specific […]
I wish I liked art museums. Art-Loving Me would sip martinis and engage in witty banter about Jackson Pollock. Art-Loving Me would skip into the MOMA in ballet flats with a sketchbook under my arm (“for inspiration, darling!”). Marc Jacobs would likely make Art-Loving Me his muse. But- like pickles and Mad Men and pilates- […]
East Coast weather has been… inhumane, as of late. It’s a Well-Known Fact that single-digit temperatures are obscene, and negative temps are like trying to divide a number by zero: it makes everyone upset & confused and causes The Universe to collapse in on itself. Obsessive airfare-deal-hunting (I have my Black Belt) yielded a weekend […]
Day #11,160: Montreal has been on My List for years… and rather than the 6-hr flight it would’ve cost me from the west coast, it’s only a quick one hour trip from New York. BOOM! Weekend trip, sucka. Mr. M & I landed in Montreal, picked up our rental car, and were in the city by […]
Like Disneyland and Central Park and anywhere blanketed in snow, there are a few places that simply radiate magic around the holidays. Lo and behold- Nashville is one of them! Day #10,479: Truth be told, the first stop on our road trip from Memphis did not begin quite so magically. Let it be known that […]
Not long ago, Mr. M remarked on how we’ve never actually walked the entire Brooklyn Bridge. This fact is revolting because (1) we’re trying to tourist our way through NYC while living here, (2) we have a ridiculous number of west coast guests come to stay with us who should’ve already dragged us with them […]
A friend recently got Mr. M & me Disneyland tickets at a super-discounted rate. So super-discounted that I snapped them up and didn’t think twice about when we might possibly have a free day together in Southern California. As it so happened, Thanksgiving weekend provided the perfect excuse. Day #11,174: As obnoxious as it sounds, […]
Heading back to California to celebrate Thanksgiving with my family has me thinking about the concept of home. Sure, NYC is my home for now… as a temporary New Yorker, I have taken to wearing a lot of black and can surf the subways like a pro. But having grown up in Southern California, I can’t […]
Frankly, y’all, I’m a little confused by this burgeoning side career, too. But exciting things have transpired, and I kinda want to share! A few months ago, I started moonlighting as an itinerary writer at Unanchor.com, concocting ridiculously detailed itineraries for similarly OCD travelers visiting New York City. I really love writing for the website […]
One of my dearest friends Ms. Dani recently bridged The Great Divide and celebrated her 30th birthday. Because she has brought so much awesomeness to my life, I wanted to step it up and toast her new decade in appropriate, triumphant glory. Day #11,156: After getting stuck in ridonkulous gridlock bumper-to-bumper traffic on the 405 […]