(Continued from A Date with My Elementary School Nemesis: Background) I watched him as he struggled to parallel park the car, always a challenge on a San Francisco hill. I was nervous. This was the culmination of seven weeks of communication complicated by a separation of 3,000 miles. This was real life. The last moments of anticipation: a straightening of [...]
Archive for January, 2012
A Date with My Elementary School Nemesis: He’s in the Navy
Posted in I left my heart in San Francisco, Walk down memory lane, You have to kiss a lot of frogs: Dating on January 27, 2012 | 1 Comment »
A Date with My Elementary School Nemesis: Background
Posted in Walk down memory lane, You have to kiss a lot of frogs: Dating, tagged boys, dates, memories, teenagers on January 24, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Hair pulling, teasing, pinching, name-calling, tattling, insulting, fighting. Oh boy, did we have a history. Last week I went on a date with my elementary school nemesis. You could say it was a date 2 months in the making. You could say it was a date 20 years in the making. You could say it [...]
Drool Worthy: Fancy Food for Me & You
Posted in Bringing home the bacon: Day Jobs, Giveaways, tagged cheese, chocolate, conventions, Fancy Food Show, food, foodies, give aways, Giveaways, red velvet, tapenade on January 19, 2012 | 26 Comments »
If my New Years Resolutions had been diet-centric in any way (it is a resolution cliché after all), I would have already failed miserably. What’s your vice? Cheese? Chocolate? Alcohol? You name it and that is what I spent my week eating. How could I say no? I was surrounded by the top gourmet food [...]
Ballerinas Take to the New York City Streets
Posted in A picture's worth a thousand words, I <3 NY, tagged ballerinas, ballet, New York City, street performers, streets, walks on January 17, 2012 | 12 Comments »
I have mentioned many times before the simple pleasure of a stroll in New York City. There’s the people watching, the fresh air, the chance of meeting a handsome stranger. There’s also the chance you’ll see something quite out of the ordinary. Something you’d never see anywhere else. I was walking through Columbus Circle the other [...]
Oh, Christmas Tree
Posted in Cause célèbre: Holidays & Celebrations, Everything has its Season, Walk down memory lane, tagged christmas, christmas tree, family, memories, mothers on January 12, 2012 | 6 Comments »
If you are ever in New York City and it starts to rain (and you’re in NYC now, the chance is likely), you will be shocked by the volume and velocity at which umbrella sellers pop out of the wood-work (steel-work? concrete-work?). It is as if they lie in wait in manholes, a bulging bag [...]
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