birthday and other thoughts

The above photo is from a magical evening at Roberta's on my birthday on the 21st. The evening comprised of great friends, several rounds of 'dark and stormy', delicious pizzas, and the good times continued on in the dreamy backyard of The Narrows.

Speaking of getting older, this blog has been around since June 2007. That's a while. I've been working on a blog redesign and porting the whole thing over to wp. Right now things are a little busy work-wise so I am running a little behind on that. And and I have an entire roll of film from Costa Rica still needing to be developed (terrible!). I think I need new photo energy...maybe a new tool will cure that. In other news, I am excited to teach at Parsons this Fall! Last summer involved several teaching stints and I was hooked.

Things I've been liking right now: Pocket for bookmarking, Harvest for invoicing, Svpply's iPad app for looking at pretty things and the NYTimes' The Collection app, especially for catching up on Bill Cunningham's audio slideshows which make me so, so happy.

happy 2012!

Walking around Williamsburg

Delicious drinks and burgers at Dumont

Dia:Beacon

Thanksgiving Dinner at Balthazar

Smores pancakes at Shopsin's


Storm King


Stone Barn

Washing off the craziness of teaching Code every day for 3 weeks, in Tulum, Mexico


Learning weaving at Textile Arts Center


Haircut! It's getting longer.


♥ Maine


Manhattanhenge


Swan and babies in Prospect Park

a quote in some book, somewhere


Spring at the High Line

Happy New Year friends! Thanks for stopping by here. Right now I am visiting family in India, resting, eating, soaking in family togetherness, contemplating various things, wishing that distances weren't so large, flights so expensive, and time so short. I hope I will have some photos to share when I get back, depending on how much I get out. 2011 was bookended by two intense semesters, sprinkled generously with good food, short trips, that one unforgettable trip to Tulum, plenty of instagrams. I am hoping for 2012 to be the year of realizing goals, personal and work related, that I have been chipping away at for some time – partly dreaming, partly doing. I hope the new year brings just the right bit of conviction and boldness I need to push through. And it's time to weed out all that negative stuff that pops up time and again and focus on what matters.