I have been doing a lot of things/visiting a lot of places that have long been on to-do/to-visit lists, either on paper, in a text file somewhere or just floating around in my mind. Here is an August smattering of such things: I went to Westport, Connecticut for a long weekend, where my aunts from [...]

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Wow, it has been two months since I did a little photo-and-verbal check-in about my garden; I can successfully report however that I am up to 29 grape tomatoes and 4 cucumbers harvested, edible nasturtium flowers, countless palm-fuls of herbs used for pestos and vase displays, and even a simulated mini-lily pad pond I came [...]

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A week ago when the stress of realizing the following–that I have not been healthy since January, that I am overworked, that I never have money, that I have headaches every single day, that I don’t sleep well because of crazy amounts of steroids and all of the aforementioned–I felt as I usually do, on [...]

Categories: Artsy/Crafty · Foodage · Life

Last week I got to speak at the Boerum Hill Association‘s Annual Greening Meeting, the theme of which was “Victory Gardens,” aka “food gardens,” which were planted during both World Wars. I forgot how much time and energy it takes to plan out a “talk,” especially one where I had to teach myself Keynote (the [...]

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New York Magazine has a great piece that compiles New Yorkers’ stories of moving to the city for the first time and the ensuing tales. I especially love Chuck Close’s, and in particular, the line, “After work we’d go over to this cafeteria in what is now the Odeon, and we’d sit around and dream [...]

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I can’t remember the first time I learned about Coney Island–whether it was from my sister who moved to Brooklyn for college or if I stumbled upon it in a book–but I do remember being drawn to the sound of it. Coney Island. In high school, before I had ever set foot in New York [...]

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