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Green-Wood in shades of white and blue.
When I lived way up north in Manhattan visiting Fort Tryon Park after a snowstorm was one of my absolute favorite things to do. This go round, knowing that Fort Tryon was on the other end of a subway...
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WHERE TO EAT IN NYC | brunch at buttermilk channel
It took me a long time to come to terms with the fact that BRUNCH IS A THING here in New York. I've never been a big breakfast food person, so I was slow to the party. But after nine years here (oh,...
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"Her sentences were icebergs, with just the tip of her thought coming out of her mouth, and the rest kept up in her head, which I was starting to think was more and more beautiful the longer I looked...
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I remember walking around the Met as things with the-last-man-I-really-cared-about were unraveling. Surrounded my such immense history and such immeasurable beauty and there was but one thought:There...
View Articlesomewhere in the west village.
I knew he wasn’t the right guy. He was just a boy. Sitting on the stool next to me, listening quietly as I mostly charmed myself. He wasn’t the right guy. But the way his tattoo peeked out from below...
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"The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what we share with someone else when we're uncool."Lester Bangs | Almost Famous
View ArticleWHAT I'M LISTENING TO | two sides of lonely {the lone bellow}
I daresay I have the best girlfriends in the world, so when Kim sent me an email with this video this morning, I knew it'd be love before I even opened it. And it was indeed.
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i totally would.
not terribly long ago--but just enough ago--i sat with a man at a bar.i made him come to me. that's the thing about carroll gardens, now i make the men come here.we sat and chatted and i felt lonely...
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lady m.
i'm older now than you were when we met.and how old you seemed then.but we knew so little, the two of us.now i feel like you're just the out-out-damn'd-spot story of my life.me, wringing my hands.me,...
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you liked him too much, my girlfriend said.and immediately i recognized that as right. yes, too much. it was only later, crawling into bed, that i thought, what is too much? i liked him too much? what...
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ROUND THESE PARTS
there's been a fair amount of food involved, so... there's that. (this neighborhood spoils me with all the fine places to eat. i'm really turning into a foodie snob, and i'm not even trying. oops)....
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what the aftermath of a night of insomnia looks like...
this is such a particular time in my life. strange and a little lonely and such that when sleep finally pulls me under around 4:30 the sheets are wrinkled and i'm on my side of the bed, an open jar of...
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"Come sleep with me: we won't make love. Love will make us."Julio Cortazar (this may just be my favorite arrangement of words. ever.)
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i want...
i want art in the bathroom.fresh flowers on fridays.i want to light a birthday candle every morning just for that-smell-right-after-it's-been-blown-out.i want the popped collar.i want a lifetime of...
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It's National Eating Disorders Awareness Week (February 24-March 2). Because of that, there's some great literature on the internet this week, including this piece by Kate Fridkis which I read on Huff...
View Articlewaiting for morning.
i used to think i couldn't sleep next to the men i cared about because i was afraid they'd leave.it took some time to learn that i wasn't so much afraid they'd leave as utterly excited that they would...
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Trading in New York for Boston (just for the weekend).
skiing at Killington in Vermont. cheering on UVA at Boston College. Tenacious D at House of Blues. late night at Chau Chow City (something to do only once...check it off your Boston bucket list and...
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here's the thing.i want to know everything.i want to know which side of the bed you sleep on when it's just you. and how you take your coffee--or your tea--or your oversized glass of orange juice. i...
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