Lately I seem to be encountering a rash of people eager to hear how happy I am to have “escaped” New York City. Aren’t you glad to be out? You can’t miss anything about New York… right? I worry I may have been a bit overdramatic in airing my frustrations with the city. Honestly, these […]
Irish Hunger Memorial in New York City
New York is a city made for lazy adventurers. In fact, it’s one of the aspects I miss most about living in Manhattan. Perhaps because despite all my planning and checklists, I am- at the core- a lazy adventurer. I like when adventures present themselves to me. When something fun & interesting & brand new […]
Thinking Globally at the United Nations Headquarters
Revisiting New York City has allowed me to curate my favorite Manhattan people, places, and food into one splendid week. It’s always gratifying returning to old favorites, but darn if there wasn’t one glaring never-made-it-happen left on my NYC To Do List. Day #11,556: It was a last-minute decision. (And the obsessive planner in me […]
(Re-)Becoming a Local in New York City
If you’ve been following my Twitter feed as of late, you might know that I’m currently in frosty NYC! To be honest, I wasn’t sure how it would feel to be back in my newly-made-old hometown. Would we slo-mo run towards one another across a field of wildflowers while “Chariots of Fire” played in the […]
Take ’em Downtown, Boys
It’s been about a month and a half since Mr. M, Charlie Mae the Wonderpup & I made the move from east to west coast, and I’m already the picture of laidback Californian, slacking off on my blog posting and rocking a shamefully dramatic flip flop tan. But wait. Seeing as how it’s been a […]
I’m Goin’ Goin’ Back Back to Cali Cali
I have been busting at the seams with my little secret, and I finally get to spill. Mr. M & Charlie Mae & I are moving back to California!! Our move to sunshine & flippie-floppies became officially official today when we closed escrow on our very first house! People tell me that this makes us […]
High Above Manhattan
One of my very most favorite places in New York exists thirty feet above the city. Beginning in 1847, an actual railway ran down the very busy 10th Avenue on the west side of Manhattan. Like seriously down the middle of the street. A freight train. When the train started colliding with pedestrians & their […]
Lights Out in Lower Manhattan
As everyone who hasn’t been living under a rock already knows, Frankenstorm hit the east coast like a bat out of hell on Monday night. The best description I’ve seen of Manhattan, post-Sandy, is that it’s now a city divided between darkness and light… above Times Square it’s easy to imagine everything is completely back […]