I’m not known for my stick-with-it-iveness. I crave the temptation of adventure. I collect hobbies and possible future careers (just saw a breakdancing troupe perform in the subway this morning, BOOM, wanna be a hip hop dancer. It’s a problem). As Jonathan Safran Foer said so eloquently, I feel my bones strain under the weight […]
Adult gymnastics classes at New York’s Chelsea Piers? Watch out, Flying Squirrel, there’s a new…uh… squirrel in town. Yeah.
A couple days ago I was perusing my Facebook feed and happened upon a picture of a friend of a friend summiting Mt. Kilimanjaro. It looked crazy amazing and more than a little bad-ass and reminded me that Mt. Kilimanjaro has been on my Bucket List for quite some time. I know for sure it’s […]
Day #11, 018: I spent Father’s Day remembering one of the finest people I’ve ever known: my dad. Before he passed away five and a half years ago, my dad was one of my very best friends. I was head-over-heels for him from the very start. In my preschool/kindergarden days, my favorite movie was Disney’s […]
As you may or may not know, the third member of our little family is a scrappy beagle-terrier-chihuahua pound mutt named Charlie Mae. Mr. M & I spotted Charlie at a rescue while visiting family in Los Angeles and instantly knew she was destined to spend her days with us. Less than 24hrs after we […]
When we moved from San Francisco to Manhattan last year, I was faced with the unholy task of sprucing up my resume. And in the process of doing so (or more aptly, procrastinating from doing so), I couldn’t help but wonder: Why do we only have career-based resumes? Why aren’t there Life Resumes to categorize […]
Looks like it’s about that time. The time to say ‘so long’ to my 20’s and ‘hello’ to a brand new decade of life. I’ll admit I had my concerns about an impending Thrisis (for the uninitiated, the Turning Thirty Crisis) which often plays out as 1) ‘finding’ imaginary wrinkles and grey hairs that somehow […]