Yesterday was just about as beautiful a day as you can get here in the dead of winter in New England. The sun was blindingly bright (still bouncing off last weekend’s snow), the temperature was above 30, and the wind kept itself under control. And for my first day off on my new part-time schedule, [...]
Why does it always seem like the one weekend I’m going out of town/unavailable is the weekend where EVERYTHING WONDERFUL IS HAPPENING?! Like the weekend we got married and went on our honeymoon? The So You Think You Can Dance tour came to Boston AND so did Regina Spektor too. This is my luck. And [...]
I was one of the lucky ones who had today, Columbus Day, off. But instead of going apple picking like I’d hoped (plans fell through) I ended up stuck at home with a mountain of things to take care of. You see, we’re moving in a couple weeks. This time it’s really happening. And so [...]
This is a follow-up post to One year later. , celebrating my one-year “blogiversary”. My, how things change in a year. Not only has my personal life changed dramatically, not only have I grown as a person, but my attitude toward and approach to blogging have evolved immensely as well. When I started blogging last [...]
I stopped by a poetry bookshop in Harvard Square this past weekend and searched out this old favorite. I studied Philip Larkin in the English class I took while studying abroad in London. It was dissecting this poem that showed me how beautiful, how intricate, how artful, poetry can really be. I love to read [...]
Thoughts in my brain right now: -I love the holidays. Love love love. Maybe it’s because I celebrated two of them growing up (both Hanukkah and Christmas). Maybe it’s because I love the feeling of a full house. But either way I embrace it all. The music that starts playing in grocery and department stores [...]
Two days ago I turned the very uneventful age of 23. It was a lovely day in Boston, and I was surrounded by good food and even better company. When I was a kid, birthdays were always very special days, more special than Christmas and all the other special days, combined. I was raised to [...]
I, like many Americans, have always considered Memorial Day the unofficial start of summer. In my neighborhood growing up, that was the day the pool opened, the day we dusted off our grills and had our first hot dog of the summer. Even though we were still in school, something had shifted. Our teachers seemed [...]
