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Tarrytown, Dad? Tarrytown, Dad.
Alongside the Christmas decorations going up in New York’s Westchester county this Sunday was a gentle dancing breeze and an ample dose of sunlight. It was a glorious autumn day that felt more like spring, a perfect day for a walk in the woods. After a quick ride north from New York City, the Z-unit [...]
Kings, Queens and Swing Sets
I am hardly ever in Queens, though it is a just a few blocks from my apartment. Unlike most of Kings county, Queens county is better traversed with an automobile. In fact, it is covered in expressways and wide boulevards. Brooklyn’s entire center, on the other hand, is devoid of highways. The Belt Parkway runs [...]
Giving Thanks, Part III:
I am thankful to survive, and thrive, through the love and support of friends. Thanksgiving plans changed drastically at the last minute due to reasons a trained psychologist will need to help me understand. Luckily, I was able to find a place to feast. Here are the highlights: CP‘s almond pignoli cookies. With a hefty [...]
✩ ✩ Buy Nothing Day: Friday, 11/27/09 ✩ ✩
1. Break a comfort zone. For the most part, we exist safely in the parameters of our comfort zones. By design, they don’t challenge us. Year after passing year, growing boundaries can keep us comfortable– but should that be the goal of our time here? Today I’ll have a meaningful conversation with a stranger, parallel [...]
Wordful Wednesday
Wordful Wednesday features bon mots, quibbles and spiel I encounter that make me feel something enough to take out my pad. In conversation, in passing, in email, or my own writing prompts, inspired by lord knows what.. Kind of like a Texts From Last Night for the more articulate and uninebriated. Without further adieu… the [...]
Who Stole the Cookies From the Cookie Guy
So there is this guy who bakes cookies. He makes them and sets up an inflatable green couch somewhere in New York City and gives them out the strangers. He is the Free Cookie Guy and I am a stranger. It’s a match made in heaven! Further, all his cookies are vegan. He doesn’t advertise [...]
Giving Thanks, Part II: Food Not Bombs
I am thankful for the ability to put my ideals in action. This past weekend I had the chance to partake in a very special event hosted by Long Island Food Not Bombs. I helped share thousands of pounds of packaged foods, hot, prepared vegan dishes, fruits, vegetables, clothing and books with the people in [...]
Giving Thanks, Part I
I am thankful for friends who value food. Holidays, like Johnny Dangerously, are just another excuse to gather the gang and to eat… and eat well. The hiatus-ed FoodSparrow and her dapper gent hosted a wonderful vegan Thanksgiving potluck over the weekend in their gorgeous Park Slope apartment and we all managed to knock each [...]
Irrational Love of the Beet
Dear Beets, I like the way you stay on my hands for hours, how peeling your earthened skin reveals the most vibrant purple-red. I think you invented purple-red. If I were born a root in the ground I, too, would grow the most vivid innards, like yours. I’d let my color bleed and ooze in [...]
The calm before the storm…
I haven’t been in the kitchen much at all these days. But that will change very, very soon. The holiday marathon of cooking, pot lucks, food shares and Christmas cookies begins this weekend. And for the first time ever, I will be responsible for the entire Thanksgiving meal at my parent’s house. This is a colossal [...]
