I buy into every bit of fresh-start optimism that January has to offer. To kick off the new year on a peaceful note, on New Years day we went to a park nearby to…
Are you humming yet? Hope so. This past weekend we spent the afternoon of James’s birthday scrambling around Central Park. We took the 4/5 up to 86th Street and stopped by the Dean & Deluca at…
Yesterday we took an amble around the 478-acre Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. A little nod to All Souls’ Day. A little opportunity to walk around someplace with colorful leaves and curvilinear paths. A little…
I keep a running list of plants I want in my one-day garden. They’re green and grassy with subtle shades of pinks and whites. The list is in my head and I’ve been meaning…
A few weeks ago, James and I snapped a few photos of our neighborhood for a mini travel guide to some of our favorite spots in Brooklyn Heights. It felt so good to get out…
If one can still be a cousin when separated by marriage and generations and entire sides of the family—and we’ve decided that the answer is yes, indeed—then we spent the weekend with cousins at…
If watching other people’s home videos wasn’t the world’s most boring activity, I’d subject you to the videos that my parents took of our family trips. Four girls and two relentlessly good spirited parents…
It’s almost August, which means that the population of New York has begun its annual shift. Our neighbors have drawn their shades and made off for who-knows-where and a whole new population of visitors…
It was a balmy 50 degrees and drizzling on Saturday. The kind of day when New York City masquerades as the Pacific Northwest and lower Manhattan puts on a show of fog and clouds…
I’m not positive that these grapes are on the vine to make ice wine, but it’s a nice thing to imagine, isn’t it? All those purply spheres getting sweeter and sweeter the more the…