Category Archives: Personal

The Gift Dilemma

Every year, there is that one person who throws a wrench into “making a list and checking it twice,” or as I like to say, “making a list and ordering online asap.”  Today I received an email from Simon Pearce debuting their Twelve Days of Christmas list, and I LOVE their new Woodbury Photo Blocks. […]

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A Farewell to Fall

It certainly seems like the last day of November.  Though we’ve been dodging the start of winter with record temps here in NYC- 70 degrees on Monday-most of the leaves are down, Christmas lights are up, and I actually needed to wear more than a vest today! I snapped this photo last weekend during an […]

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NY Marathon Sunday

Despite a chilly start, it was a GORGEOUS day in the city today for the marathon.  When I lived in Monterey, I signed up for a half marathon and had to quit training a month before the race due to horrible shin splints- and that was only to run 13.1 miles!  To say that I […]

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Trick or Treat- Halloween in Manhattan

Happy Halloween!  Raising a child in Manhattan means doing a few things quite differently than I did as a child in the suburbs, and Halloween is one of those very different experiences! Since it’s my daughter’s first Halloween, we had the inaugural taste of trick or treating Manhattan style.  Some kids here don’t even leave […]

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