The City and Us Turns 1!
A year ago today, I wrote the first post for The City and Us. It’s simultaneously hard to believe it’s already been a whole year and hard to believe it hasn’t been at least two years. When...
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Bushwick Art Exhibit: Skin of Liberty
What are you up tonight? Earlier this week, I helped my friend and artist Beth Dary complete her installation for the Skin of Liberty, Fractured and re-Structured art exhibit in Bushwick, Brooklyn, and the show opens tonight at...
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How To Feel Settled In A New Place
Last spring we jumped into the unknown when we moved from the central Vermont to New York City. Before our move, Dan had never lived in a city before. I had lived in Boston for 10...
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Snow Day!
How are you all doing? Did you get a ton of snow? The reports for New England and Long Island are shocking. I read that Worcester, Massachusetts (not far from where I went to college) broke records with...
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Happy New Year!
Happy New Year! Are you looking forward to 2015? 2014 was a whirlwind year for us–in the best way possible–and I’m really looking forward to what 2015 has in store for us! I hope you have...
Read MoreHave a wintery weekend
Hope everyone is having a great weekend! Any fun plans? We’re running last-minute errands this weekend before heading north to Vermont and New Hampshire for a week. Since there hasn’t been any snow in NYC, I’m looking forward...
Read MoreTCS NYC Marathon 2014
This year, the TCS NYC Marathon took 50,564 participants through the five boroughs of NYC and over the Verrazano-Narrows (the longest suspension bridge in the US), Queensboro, Pulaski, Willis Avenue, and Madison Avenue Bridges. Dan and I watched...
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City.Ballet. Season 2
Yesterday, I binge watched the second season of City.Ballet, a docudrama produced and narrated by Sarah Jessica Parker exploring what it’s really like to be a dancer at the prestigious New York City Ballet (NYCB)....
Read MoreHalloween in NYC
On Halloween night, Dan and I joined thousands of other costume-clad spectators to watch the New York City 41st annual Village Halloween Parade in Greenwich Village, and it was an experience for the books! A few of our...
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Scratch-Off Art in NYC Subways
This article in the New York Times shared some interesting photos by photographer Kevin Shea Adams of print advertisements in NYC subway stations. Layers and layers of old advertisements exist behind the current ads and...
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