Memorial Day weekend was hot, like something out of midsummer. You know, hazy days in July when you’ve all but forgotten what a day below 80 degrees feels like. Only it’s the end of May. ...
I’ve been sprucing up the house this week in little ways like replacing our curtains, changing our duvet for summer, adding a pillow here and there, simplifying the clutter on shelves and dress...
Do you know about my friend Nichole‘s book, Paris in Color yet? Yes, her Paris photos from her blog and Etsy shop have culminated into this beautiful book. You can find it at various places inc...
Well, this has been a month of answers in regards to the health front so that has been a relief, though there is still one issue that will remain mysterious because my health insurance deemed it medi...
It’s Design Week in NYC, which means a lot of friends are in town! I spent the last 3 days with Lisa, Victoria and Anna, including a girls’ weekend away at Anna and Evan’s beautiful...
Thank you to all of you who have left a comment in support of yesterday’s post. You guys are the best. I know I over think things and I think out loud. It’s always a funny thing, this blo...
Remember this post from last year about my internal struggle about ads? No, I’m not about to line the sidebar with 20 ads and I doubt that I ever will, but I have placed this seemingly innocuou...
It looks like Alice plays here, doesn’t it? You may remember the first time we took the girls to Old Westbury Gardens. It was on my birthday last year, but it was still chilly and the leaves an...
Can we fast forward to next Friday? I’ll be straight up and tell you that I’m scared and I want next week to be over with already. In the last few weeks, I don’t think I̵...
I know I don’t talk about my design work very often (ask my family; I think it drives them nuts that I don’t like to talk about the projects I’m working on). I often reference that ...
I can’t imagine living some place that’s not by the ocean. Sure, Coney Island isn’t the prettiest of beaches by any means, but it has a gritty charm all its own (though I was sad to...
What does it mean to mourn the death of someone you don’t know? Someone you have never met, or could call a friend? But I guess that’s the weird nature of celebrity, and in this case, one...
Well, hello frozen treats on a stick. Remember this experiment that didn’t really go over so well last year? But hey…we’re still not giving up! Kind of like our Coconut Five ...
This post is part of an effort organized by Ez from Creature Comforts encouraging bloggers to open up today and write something about themselves that they might not normally share with their readers ...
Do you ever think about the house you grew up in? Maybe some of you go back, to visit your parents who still live there. This is the house I grew up in, in a fairly suburban-like neighborhood in Quee...
Does anyone really get excited about lentil soup? It’s a good old standby, hearty and filling, but I can’t really say I ever crave a bowl of lentil soup. But Mark made a huge pot the othe...
This is what we did on Saturday. What’s this, you ask? It’s a rainbow parade, of course! And it was as cheesy and fun as you’d expect a rainbow parade snaking through Dumbo and acro...
It’s looks complex. We all have our up days and our down days. We all feel insecure sometimes and lost. It’s normal and it has nothing to do with how old you are, how experienced y...
Do you ever feel invisible? That whatever you do, you’re not being heard or you’re being left behind? That nobody cares anymore and you feel like giving up? Seems very juvenile to have th...
I think one of the great pastimes of being a New Yorker is debating on whether or not to stay in the city or move. You can pretty much overhear or give your 2 cents on this conversation anywhere you ...
I’m finding myself with a rare week where the timing is such that I have nothing on my agenda yet (update: hahaaa. free week derailed by work!). This kind of no work leisure time is much differ...
In another amazing marker of where-is-this-year going, we’re already thinking about Mother’s Day. This year we have a new cookie to put into our gift boxes – a fennel and olive oil ...
It used to be that I would hang out in Williamsburg, Brooklyn a lot 12, 14 years ago when it was easy to hop on the L train from my East Village apartment. It was 2 trains stops and 10 minutes away. ...
Despite all the mild angst surrounding this birthday from a few posts back, I had a really good day. I had a good design review with a client in the morning and decided to push work aside for the res...
The cherry blossoms are at near peak. We love standing under the big cherry trees in the neighborhood surrounded by pink fluffiness. The flowers are outrageous. 86 degrees today. Also kind of ...
Claudine: “An inside out fart doesn’t make any noise, but it smells. It smells the same as a not inside out fart which sounds like ppppffffffftt.” Claudine: “I wish the...
It’s spring break. Which means that we weren’t prepared for childcare for the week while the kids are home, of course. We always figure we can wing it and then when things start unexpecte...
I’m going to be 42 in a week, you know. 42 (!!) Forty two. Forty + twooooooo. Basically your average middle aged mom. And I laugh even when I write that because various friends and I hav...
Some traditions evolve naturally over time. We first started spending Easter with Mark’s Russian side of the family 3 years ago when we came up to visit his dad who was gravely ill in the hospi...
And I needed that. 68 degrees. Brilliant sunshine. Trees in a haze of tiny green buds. Lunch with Nichole in Bryant Park (and hundreds of other New Yorkers and tourists, apparently) and coffee with A...
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