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Tag Archives: New York
Back to NY, Day One — Nanny & Pop-Pop’s House
My third trip back to New York was for my best friend’s wedding. Shannon and I met in sixth grade, became friends in seventh grade, and BFFs in eighth. So it’s been nearly 30 years. We went through junior and … Continue reading
Posted in Apartments & Other Domiciles, Books, Childhood, Dreams, Family, Uncategorized, Women
Tagged grandparents, New York
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To Nanny, On Her 91st Birthday
Arrive. DING-donggggg. Shuffle shuffle inside. Tentative door open that got less tentative once she saw who it was. Echoey voices in the hallway leading up to the kitchen, where we’d say our hellos and have The Punch – filled with … Continue reading
Posted in Apartments & Other Domiciles, Childhood, Family, Food, Miscellaneous, Women
Tagged banker's lamps, basements, Body Buddies cereal, bomb shelters, Chip, Christina Applegate, coffee, Cujo, dining rooms, doorbells, growing old is not for sissies, Kelly Bundy, Married with Children, Meadowbrook Parkway, Merrick, meteorologists, Nanny, New York, offices, pink roses, Pop-Pop, punch bowls, sherbet, shunning pork, staticky televisions, stuffed mushrooms, yellowed paper
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A Candle
When I was young, there was pretty much no place I loved quite as much as Lake George, New York. I grew up pretty poor. To be fair, my parents were living the American Dream while it still existed, and … Continue reading
Posted in Body Image, Celebrities, Childhood, Entertainment, Family, Miscellaneous, TV, Women
Tagged Alyssa Milano, American dream, Entenmann's, Freihofer, Lake George, Miracle Whip, New York, san francisco, squash, summer homes, Who's the Boss
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New York VERSUS Colorado!
Do NOT mock my pro/con lists! ~ Rory Gilmore So a few weeks ago, I revisited New York. My home state, the place I lived for nearly 36 years. It had been nearly two years since I’d been there. Thanks … Continue reading
Posted in Apartments & Other Domiciles, Family, Food, Friends, Lists, Manitou, Miscellaneous, Restaurants, Women
Tagged altitude, Amendment 64, Atlantic Ocean, bagels, Benny Blanco's, Blue Moon, bridges, Chinese food, Colorado, commuting, Dabba Mints, Denver, Facebook, Hurricane Sandy, Josh, La Piazza, LNK, Long Island, Manitou Springs, Merrick, MMJ, mountains, Nassau, New York, obnoxious drivers, oceans, pizza, pro/con lists, Reefer Madness, Rockville Centre, Rocky Mountains, root beer, Rory Gilmore, Sammy's wedding, Schenectady, Suffolk, Townhouse Lounge, vegetarian, Waldo Canyon fire, weed, wine
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New Air
When I moved to Colorado two years ago, one of the most healing things about it was the smell of the air. Though two years earlier, the altitude change made me feel sick in cold April, in warm May of … Continue reading
Posted in Apartments & Other Domiciles, Manitou, Miscellaneous, Women
Tagged altitude sickness, Colorado, Denver, John Denver, Long Island, Manitou Springs, New York, ocean, Rocky Mountain High
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