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🗽NYC creative🤹‍♀️ Earring maker @brightsideclay ✨ Improviser @uptonogod 👩🏼‍💻blogger since 2008
💌 marylane@newyorkcliche.com
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A perf(ect) weekend perf(orming) at PF (Porchfest)

A perf(ect) weekend perf(orming) at PF (Porchfest) ❤️

Somerville, Massachusetts has this super fun event where bands perform on their porches (or driveways) and people walk around like the whole neighborhood is a music festival. Can we bring this to Sunnyside, Queens? Stoop Fest?

I just love performing so much. And the only thing better than performing is when it’s with friends you’ve been singing with for over 25 years🥹

So proud of @41liz41 for bringing it all together (including her music students - swipe to see/hear) with so much joy, talent, and love!!!!

If you’ve ever thought, “Mary Lane dresses lik

If you’ve ever thought, “Mary Lane dresses like she works at a secondhand store,” congrats - you are correct.

If you’ve ever thought, “I wish Mary Lane could get me free stuff for my theatre project/sketch show/nonprofit work/community event/classroom,” weird but actually - I CAN!

I give away free furniture and other items (clothing/kitchenware/decor) away every day at @remixmarketnyc - HIT ME UP!

Here’s to 2023 🎉 1. Swimming in the warm win

Here’s to 2023 🎉

1. Swimming in the warm winter waters at Flamenco Beach, PR
2. My mom visiting NYC, Long Island City, Queens
3. Visiting friends and aura chasing in Sedona, AZ
4. A rare gorgeous early morning commutes, Sunnyside
5. An incredible vacation to Italy, and stunning view in Perugia
6. Amazing food and sightseeing in Rome
7. Final feasts of summer and sharing New Harbor, Maine with friends
8. Handpicked flowers and Abbie
9. Hawking my @brightsideclay wares in Sunnyside
10. The first post-pandemic return of Christmas caroling, Columbus Circle NYC

Styling my dad’s grooviest shirt on the 1 year a

Styling my dad’s grooviest shirt on the 1 year anniversary of his death because…. It felt right and just a little bit like a hug? Would love to hear any advice or experience about handling parent death anniversaries as I’m both lucky and unlucky to be new at this❤️

Happy Mother’s Day to all mothers.❤️ Most es

Happy Mother’s Day to all mothers.❤️
Most especially from me to my remarkable mommy who taught me most of the things I know. This includes never letting a dial-a-day pass me by, how to identify wisteria (and countless other floral & fauna), that it’s never too late to learn (even to stand on your head), and to not be afraid to slip and slide a little (or even a lot).

Love you, mama. Thank you for everything - for being you and making me, me. @ellesappellelsa

Today coulda/shoulda/woulda been my dad’s 80th b

Today coulda/shoulda/woulda been my dad’s 80th birthday.

Instead it’s been almost exactly 6 months to the day that we lost him in a car accident. It was the 4th day of my parents’ annual summer road-trip. They drove from San Francisco to Maine pretty much every summer. My dad loved these trips so much, he looked forward to them all year and while he was on the road there was a considerable extra pep in his step. He spend his last day on earth hiking the Colorado Rockies, admiring mountain wildflowers flowers and the gorgeous vista views. It brings me comfort to say he died doing what he loved.

Good grief do I miss him terribly.
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My goofball daddy who would make up rousing ditties while he did the dishes every night. Who clipped out favorite comics from the newspaper and mailed them to me ever since I moved away from home. Who would collaborate with my toddler scrawlings to create delightful “Dada/Baba” works of art.

It’s not a side most people saw. You might have known him recently as the serious senior hogging the copy machine at the SF public library, sourcing materials for intricate collage art pieces he was always working on. Or the gruff grandpa at the Royal Ground cafe on Polk Street who came everyday, ordered a triple espresso and sat in his favorite chair for hours to work on his book. Or the blur who would run, later bike, past you on the SF Marina Green in a routine that was so consistent you might recognize him from the same time last Thursday and think, wow, look at that old guy go.

Not so recently, as the cool-cat hippy who climbed mountains and might have tripped around the world.

Always as the incredibly loyal family man who loved anyone at all related to him so fiercely.

I was ever so lucky to have him as my father. Love you always, Dad. ❤️❤️❤️

If you have any stories or memories of my father Rockwell Townsend, my mom and I always love to hear them.

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