We moved to 1 West Street on February 21, 2015. It was our first New York apartment and it was perfect in every way. We were on the 21st floor. There was a chandelier in the kitchen, its one window looked out onto the Hudson and lady liberty, and we had space to run if we wanted. The first night we ordered noodles from the Japanese restaurant nearby and I sat on the floor eating them to avoid…
I’ve been thinking about this in the past week since getting back from the road trip. Traveling outside of New York felt like work. Driving around felt like work. By the end of the trip, I was anxious to come “home.” Whenever anyone asked me about living in Manhattan, I was instantly ready to defend it and praise it. It’s special to me, after-all I worked 9 months to get here while looking for a…
We left Manhattan and traveled from San Diego to Seattle in one week. From July 30 to August 6 we were on the road. We were a librarian and a securities analyst driving a cramped Jeep Compass through the traffic of LA, the coast of Big Sur, the mountains of Yosemite, the hills of Napa, the foggy Oregon coast, and the grey area from Portland to Seattle. In San Diego, we got off the plane and drove…
Time Lapse From our roof, Governors Island looks like a place where orphans or convicts or the insane were sent to live. It’s full of old abandoned buildings and a new park where you can rent bikes and stand in line at a food truck. We went during Pinknic, which is a large gathering of New Yorkers dressed in pink, drinking pink wine, and listening to live music that clashes horribly with the sad…
21 August Friday Waking up to flash flood warnings, J. and I left Long Island at 5:30am for Boston, MA. We went to Trillium Brewing Company in Boston’s Fort Point neighborhood. They opened at noon, but a line began to form before 11am. We waited an hour until someone with a loud speaker announced, “Beer! Beer! Beer!” and we were allowed inside. We walked out with a large box full of bottles of…
“We need to move away from this constant need of coming across as calm, cool and collected. We weren’t built to be calm, cool, and collected. If we...”
