and so. back to italy we go.our friend from study abroad told us that she was getting married on the italian coast over a year ago, and while it seemed like a pipe dream, we decided wed try and save ...
of course id be remiss if i didnt point out my favorite way of seeing one another (and something i mentioned last year): going to visit one another. and when you have a friend whos a west-coaster, it...
after south africa that summer, we went on to spain. for all of the beauty and uniqueness of south africa, it was spain that captured my heart. perhaps i think about going back there because its more...
*im headed on a little trip this coming week with my friend katie, whom i met on study abroad in 2004. weve been fortunate enough to travel to very many places together, due to luck in timing and tha...
did anyone watch the preakness? my my my, what a race. that was most of the excitement round these parts this weekend. we stopped in to our favorite bbq place that reopened for the summer (yes, the b...
i know. another recipe. can you believe it?! i feel like with all this rain i have been in housewife overdrive. a housewife to myself. ive cooked, cleaned and done laundry all in the same night. rain...
so, this quiche has a lot of mushrooms in it. and i understand that some people absolutely hate mushrooms. i get it - theyre not for everyone - but i dont mind them. and im sure some people out there...
i started the weekend off with a bang - by running a 10K in central park! it was a beautiful day and i finished with a time i was really happy with. i found the 10K to be a great race for me - long e...
i finally made a collection that is affordable to me. and you. and if you read this and youre a thousand-are, well then you can buy it all!i would say everything is under a hundred bucks. but that wo...
so, with farmers market season in full swing, id like to compare notes.im not the best at shopping farmers markets - i always end up unsure of how much things will weigh and they price it per pound a...
we started the weekend off with another nyc brunch institution, prune, similar to the clinton street baking company. the wait for a table of two wasnt nearly as bad, but we packed a donut just in cas...
i did it again last month! and im doing it again this month. march was definitely my worst month, in terms of photos taken, by far. nothing will beat january, but i guess the bloom is off the rose. a...
via here.almost every morning i see a man in my neighborhood take his dog for a walk. i see them some evenings, too. he comes outside, takes the dogs diaper off, and they hobble around the block. its...
i made my first attempt to start the summer season yesterday at my first baseball game.it was freezing. i shivered my way to the 7th inning and decided to call it a game right then and there. but, as...
this weekend could have not been more perfect (except, perhaps, just a smidgen warmer). on saturday we went on a little roadtrip of the hudson valley. i donned red lips, a chambray shirt and striped ...
i met jess, my college roommate, because she lived in my dorm my freshmen year. in the second half of the year, we quickly developed a very close and amazing friendship. ive had a few friendship...
i found a vegan recipe for chocolate chip cookies at the end of grad school, and with some extra time on my hands i decided to give it a whirl. but lets make one thing clear:i do not condone veganism...
via here.a coworker from a different office was recently in town, and as we wandered home one night she asked me,"are you glad you live in new york? is this what you always wanted?"its not a ...
this past weekend was spent in philadelphia for the wedding of my college roommate. the wedding was amazing - beautiful day, delicious food, and lots of dancing. in addition to being able to celebrat...
i had a whole post planned for today. someone asked me a question a few days ago and i was like - yes! that will make a great post.well, it will have to wait until next week. i recently discovered th...
oh my friends. my friends, my friends. its getting to be that season. that season where i work longer hours. it comes four times a year. just like all the other seasons. and here are the things that ...
im calling it - this weekend was one of the best, perhaps the best, in 2012 (so far). the weather was perfect in nyc all weekend, and saturday provided a gorgeous day to pick up some things at the fa...
well, today marks the big three-year anniversary for myself and...brian.thats right, he has a name. and its now been revealed for all of you to know!exciting stuff for a friday.this saturday well be ...
when i first moved to nyc i worked a lot of hours. long hours. and while it was similar to the internship that led me to the city in the first place, the company had been through a lot of changes whi...
i firmly believe in guy time and girl time. i think it does a wealth of good. you lounge around (or maybe play basketball or video games or whatever it may be that guys do these days) eating, talking...
i hope everyone had a good easter/passover/spring weekend. i went upstate to spend the weekend with the boy and his parents. i contributed by making the always necessary "welcome back jesus" ...
ive been catching up with old friends. traveling north on the hudson for easter to see him. drinking chianti with both. continuing my love affair with prosciutto, salami, serrano ham and everything i...
well. i was really bad this past march in my photo-a-day project. i did not take a lot of pictures. if you were my teacher, youd be giving me side-eye while writing a big, red "f" on my paper...
when i first moved to nyc it didnt take long for me to get a hankering for this recipe. i make it about two to three times a year, and when i get a craving for it, it just wont quit. i first started ...
i had another low-key weekend filled, obviously, with food. i think i can officially say that breakfast pizza is slowly becoming a new favorite. and with less than a week left to easter im eating up ...
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