Why, yes – I did fly from NYC to Chicago last week for a road trip to Michigan. Friends and strangers alike have declared me insane for footing the bill for a round-trip plane ticket and three days in a hotel, just to spend seven hours in a car with the end goal of picking…
Hello, and happy Saturday, friends! It’s been a busy few months, and while I have been writing periodically, nothing has felt quite finished enough to post for awhile – hence the dust that’s been collecting around here. But it’s a beautiful fall day today; the windows are open, the breeze is perfect, and a few…
Summer has arrived in earnest here, and with it, the antiquated air conditioner which comes with my furnished apartment. Fortunately, it has not been super-hot (yet) with the exception of one or two days, so I have not (yet) had to use the air conditioner on a regular basis. I’m grateful for this, as it…
Yesterday was the one-year anniversary of my move to Brooklyn. Someone asked me not too long ago if I felt like a true New Yorker yet, and the answer is no. No, I do not… and I am not entirely convinced that I ever will. In the words of Jo March in Little Women, “I…
Today has been interesting, to say the least. I headed out to church in Tribeca this morning, and this doesn’t happen often, but there was actually a seat on the train, I made my connection just in time, and there was a seat on the 2nd train, too. (I’m not even kidding: this is what…
