Month: June 2015

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The Nights These Days

We're still in the same wonderful building we moved into 4 years ago. We meet old friends by the garbage shoot in the hall, and still laugh at how rarely our landlord has our windows cleaned. The lobby's electronic art screens still don't work since Hurricane Sandy. We're thankful to be in our little haven here in BK, and about once a year, we pop in to show you photos of the nabe. Since it's been a while, here goes. New York this summer has been a bit rainier than usual, and this past Tuesday w…

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Flashback: Ireland (2013)

Two years ago, we jetted over to Northern Ireland for our friends' wedding, the most lovely moment in huddle of old stone buildings on the coast. We didn't bring the camera that night, but we traveled around the country with friends for the better part of a week. I shared some of that trip two years ago, but never finished posting the photos. After our beautifully restful stop in Portnoo, we drove up the coast all the way to the top of the island, and stopped at the Giant's Causeway, a landscape…

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Flashback: Switzerland 2011

Walk and I have been going back through old photos lately (and still planning our big adventure later this year for our 5th anniversary!), and found a whole area of Switzerland we visited in 2011 that we never posted here. It's a theme lately: old places in new posts! It's hard to believe this was us 4 years ago, not even at our first anniversary. To this day, Switzerland remains in the top 3 places I've been. The fresh air, the idyllic trains, and the spectacular alpine lakes. Sigh. We took tra…

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Stone Barns Center, Potanico Hills, NY

With the sidewalks quickly starting to sizzle up ice cream (and garbage) drips here in NYC, Walker and I took a quick trip out of the city’s summer aromas to a farm up the Hudson, the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture. I visited the farm and the accompanying restaurant, Blue Hill, almost exactly a year ago for my office’s sales conference and had been wanting Walker to see the incredible barns ever since. We took the Metro North Train from Grand Central a quick 40 minutes to Tarrytown…

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Hamptons Poetry Retreat

A few weekends ago was one of my favorites in a long time because it joined some of my favorite things in the world: poetry, fresh food, getting out of the city, and the beach. On Friday, I took the Long Island Railroad out to Hampton Bays to participate in a poetry retreat with Brooklyn Poets. Each day was packed with workshops and classes, time to sit by the pool on the most enormous deck I have ever walked on, lay on a towel by the green ocean watching surfers in wet suits mount the stacked…

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Birmingham, Alabama

Last month, we took a quick three-day trip down to Alabama to spend time with Walker's grandma and extended family on his dad's side. The timing was perfect as I was itching to get out of the city. Since it wasn't quite yet spring in NYC, it felt so luscious there, with heavy green boughs weighed over the roads. Walker's relatives live in this quaint town right outside Birmingham called Mountain Brook. The houses are all so classy and historic, it feels like I've stepped back in time. We tried s…