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why i love new york summers part III

In Uncategorized on 9 June 2008 with 8 comments

the heat wave.
I know its hard to find something to love in 95 degree weather that feels like 100 and makes everything stick to your skin. Yes, I’m smelly, sticky, sweaty, uncomfortable and at times bordering on miserable, especially during the times when I didn’t have ac, but there really is something about [...]

whiskey river is my guidebook to life

In Uncategorized on 5 June 2008 with 8 comments

“What I point out to you is only that you shouldn’t allow yourselves to be confused by others. Act when you need to, without further hesitation or doubt. People today can’t do this – what is their affliction? Their affliction is in their lack of self-confidence. If you do not spontaneously trust yourself sufficiently, you [...]

Sentience

In Uncategorized on 5 June 2008 with 87 comments

And you can look back, remembering the exact moment when you first put down the pen. Stopped feeling certain things. Pushed all of the important issues to the back of your mind. Packed your bags, hopped on a plane and moved to across the country to run straight from one thing and into another. Because [...]

Another Paris Snapshot: the boy in the café

In Paris, People, Uncategorized, french on 23 May 2008 with 576 comments

There are endless moments in life you want to capture, so picturesque and ideal, that the world, conspiring against you, makes an impossible task. So instead we commit the moment to memory, determined to explain it as best as possible when the opportunity arises.
I nearly forgot about him, the boy in the café, until I [...]

I’m a better daughter than you*

In Uncategorized on 14 May 2008 with 9 comments

I’m practically the Blazey of daughter-hood.
Flying my awesome and amazing mother to New York over Memorial Day weekend as part of a Mother’s Day/Birthday Present.
Planning a small meet and greet with my NYC family over dinner on Saturday or Sunday and showing her around the hood. I am very excited.
(*ok, this isn’t exactly true, I [...]

A year ago: my memory was impeccable.

In Uncategorized on 11 May 2008 with 5 comments

A year ago today.
I’d spent my first night in my new apartment, after bouncing around between a couple of friends places for exactly two months. My friend stayed over to help me break it in (i was nervous about sleeping alone).
It was mothers day and I called my mom.
We had breakfast at the Bistro. [...]

Say Yes…to list making

In Uncategorized on 2 May 2008 with 28 comments

I woke up at seven am (the usual time) with a slight hangover. (see previous 3 posts)
At eight am I watched Lars and the Real Girl (worth seeing)
I ate popcorn for breakfast (I do what I want!)
(Dance Interlude)
Went to Dumbo for a lunch date with an old co-worker (who I don’t see enough of)
My phone [...]

Leaves Of Grass: Song of Myself

In Uncategorized, poetry on 1 May 2008 with 16 comments

I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
My tongue, every atom of my blood, form’d from this soil, this air,
Born here of parents born [...]

Lessons in Dating Yourself

In Uncategorized on 1 May 2008 with 13 comments

Tonight was…well, all that you could hope and possibly expect from a night.
I was waiting for something to happen, my friends to appear or the night to coalesce and for everything to magically work out. Walking as I usually do from Chelsea south I ended up around Astor and decided, rather resolutely, that I would [...]

Lessons in Connectivity

In Uncategorized on 30 April 2008 with 26 comments

I love being open.
I love being the type of person who lays it on the table and says…here it is, love me or leave me, but this is who I am. There are times of course when I apologize for aspects of myself that I fine to be… well… overwhelming or when I’m fearful [...]