I am one of those rare (well it seems that way) people that still have an iPod. I have too much music to fit on my iPhone or the Touch so my iPod is still my good friend! I nearly always play it on shuffle, except when I am in certain moods. Eg. needing a…
St Patrick’s Day
Being in New York, St Patrick’s day is a bit insane to say the least. I trodded off to work and thankfully the weather was still cool enough to wear one of my favourite cardigans of all time… my LL Bean Popcorn Stitch Green cardi! In our work cafeteria they went all out for lunch….
NY Restaurant Week
We LOVE Restaurant Week – a chance to sample some of NY’s best restaurants with special prix fixe menu prices. What is not to love about that? This year we experienced two restaurants – Delmonico’s and One if by Land, Two if by Sea. Both were fantastic nights out! Delmonico’s was old school New York…
Quote
“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.” — Thomas Merton
Adventures in Queens
Ahh Monday! After work we ventured way out into the depths of Queens to go and order a new recliner for Bill. We stood on the A train all the way to the Aquaduct when we realized we went one stop too far… which is a good thing because otherwise we would’ve ended up at…
Another year…
It was my birthday this weekend and it was fantastic because we did… nothing. To be honest, being all settled back in to normal life has been great and having a day in my pyjamas was BLISS. I got breakfast in bed. Then I did nothing. Watched four hours of 90210, cleared some TiVo shows,…
Bethany’s Blue Box
Last week Beth Wake passed away. She was only 15 and had spent the last year bravely fighting an aggressive brain tumour. Beth was the daughter of longtime family friends of ours and there have been many people, all around the world, following her plight and hoping and praying for her. She was passionate about…
Life begins at… 4am.
Between the hours of 4am and 7am the following happened – Alarm went off. Woke up. Bill ordered his iPad. Told me about the earthquake in Japan. Then told me about the tsunami warnings We started following the Collingwood game. I checked CNN. I checked The Age. I checked Twitter. I checked weather warnings. I…
As the walls came down at the Star..
With Lent being a time for reflection I don’t know where my current thoughts stemmed from but… this was totally random today. In between my walk from the Brooklyn Museum subway station to the Brooklyn Public Library for my volunteer shift, I was thinking about how lucky I have been to have travelled to so…
Lenten season is here
Remember, man, that thou art dust, and to dust thou shalt return. With those words, Father Joe marked my forehead with ashes and Ash Wednesday was complete. (Wow it looks like some huge, giant fake hand is holding my iPhone in this pic…!) As part of a variety of things I am doing for Lent…