As the planet turned to make morning come to the Eastern Standard time zone today, I stood with my back to the rising sun and face over Hudson River. The Westside Highway and Cabrini Boulevard sandwiched the sidewalk and ledge from where I looked out. Mild gusts turned to flirtatious breezes advancing up my pale,… Read more »
It was an infinitely blue sky. But we all know that. I’d gotten lucky that morning. Shouldn’t mention that but that was where it started. Feeling infinitely good, oblivious to any media inputs, I left the brownstone in the Village and walked out under that sky onto Varick headed downtown to the office in Soho…. Read more »
Faithful readers may recall that last week I was traveling through the Scottish Highlands with my husband and his friend (Almost Elaine?, 9.1.11). When I got home, I looked up the Highlands on Wikipedia, and according to that highly reliable source, the area is “one of the most sparsely populated in Europe. The average population… Read more »
(written while watching the MSNBC Reagan Library Republican presidential candidate debate) An Ode to Underwear: Living Underwear. Sustainable Underwear. Can you live without Underwear? Dive under some Underwear. Down under Underwear. Organic Underwear. Rick Perry Underwear. Underwear on fire. Successful Underwear. Living the dream Underwear. I love underwear. Some people don’t have Underwear. Support Underwear… Read more »
The DOE public health nurses Speech: The power in sharing our stories which may lead to a resurgence in motivating others. On a sun filled Friday morning, my day began just as any other day would. I ready myself for work and made my way into the city. The only difference of that day would… Read more »
You don’t even have to really say just what you’re referring to. In the months, the weeks and even the days leading up this week, just about everyone I know has given me a recount of where they were ten years ago. Ten years ago – when life as we know it changed. Ten years… Read more »
Ask a New Yorker: Charles Pavarini III- exuberant, contemporary, and fashionable. You have a wonderful sense of rhythm in your design esthetic. But can you dance? Charles: Can I dance? That’s what I started off doing. I came to the city to dance classically. I did Chorus Line and many, many musicals. So yes, I… Read more »
Ask a New Yorker: Let’s see… I met Edie on the train, we had a quick conversation and here we are two weeks later. That day, where were you off to? Edie: I was off to the Plaza Hotel. I’m going to be exhibiting my work there a few times a month in the salon,… Read more »
“Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink.” Is our economy really becalmed? Were we pissing in the wind pumping trillions… Read more »
Last Friday night I flew to Scotland to see a play that my husband directed for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The plan was to stay in Edinburgh for the final three performances and then spend a week exploring the rest of the country with my husband and the playwright, a man who also happens to… Read more »
