December 2009
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they tell us "happily ever after" at the end of...
This year, I spent a long time reflecting on Christmas holidays of my childhood. It seems as though in the past, the celebration was more all-encompassing. I sat in my living room and gazed at a beautifully decorated evergreen tree and realized, at four years old, our freshly cut fir was relatively five times my height. The glass of eggnog poured by my mother filled a mug so large, I could...
Three pictures may seem excessive,
But I am really proud of this broad……
Last day in NYC till twenty ten.
Homeward bound and in the highest spirits!
Christmas wish
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One day when it is the future
With the help of Hanna Barbera and Aldous Huxley, creators of The Jetsons and A Brave New World, respectively, ideals of the future are manufactured and instilled in our minds and loom in impending doom, as always, just around the corner. Permanently affixed as mere premonitions, these concepts are too enveloped in their placement as “the future” to be recognized by society as they...
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Cut from the same cloth
Sharing separate articles of a two-piece ensemble, I pose with a best friend on the eve of her departure for an engagement and new life with fiance in Argentina. She wears her favorite platforms, I wear her patchwork Pradas, and we celebrate a momentous, if temporary, visit among friends. With increasing progression, I watch as my closest disperse across the globe. It seems the farther they go...
Ready?
My friend Phil exhibited his artwork tonight at the Andrew Edlin Gallery, and never before have I been so happy to arrive at such a crowded venue. As a result of an alarmingly enormous turnout, the gallery was packed shoulder-to-shoulder with a line out the door and a body heat induced temperature fogging the icy windows.
It was the coldest day yet in New York City, and as no shock to any that...
purr on, little pussycat
Last night I satiated all twenty of my sweet-teeth at a candy cane cocktail party.
I encountered a kitten who tenderly purred and nuzzled against my legs, and while sipping on a drink with a peppermint twist, found myself contemplating this cat’s behavior when matched with an unyielding gaze toward my candy.
A random act of genuine kindness hangs in a museum of urban myths; sometimes...
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Good fortune.
Today the make believe continued, and my father and I proceeded to entertain ourselves in the manner of children in a maze of museums. Full of imagination, we attended the Science Center and Museum of Natural History. Among many awe inspiring attractions, after seeing the fossilized remnants of dinosaurs I discovered that some fantasies are in fact more likely realities.
As if an afternoon...
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Take two bolts and call me in the morning.
Recently, a friend introduced me to the term “diet dating”. Although an interesting idea well deserving of consideration, I must say I plan to avoid such social habits with the same unwavering adamancy as I deny both south beach and the infamous lemonade cleanse.
Diet dating, or rather, “a lighter version of a previous relationship between a couple that once was”, treads...
Suspend your disbelief!
The real world is preconceived but not predestined, and therefore predetermined only in intention.
Perhaps we had it right playing dress up and make believe, credible in our confidence that the universe will accommodate the span of our imaginations.
We fantasize about the houses we wish to build, carefully arranging rooms in tudor dollhouses and pausing to refuel with imaginary tea.
Upon...
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A Streetcar Named Desire and a bus named B38
So beautiful in her demise that I wanted to collapse on stage, right there with her. Every seat in the full-house became vacant as an entire theater of spectators were coerced into the show. We left our bodies in our seats; vehicles for souls that could no longer rest as casual observers of a theatrical matinee. When Blanche Dubois (Blanchett) cried, I wiped the salty tears from my cheeks and...