Every winter around this time a mass exodus occurs. New Yorkers fly away in packs because five months of consecutive winter is just too much for anyone spoiled enough to live in the Big Apple to bear. The destination? Always somewhere warm, except for those NYC crazies obsessed with skiing, snowshoeing, and vacations in Aspen. Last year, I [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Previous Post, Punta Blasting Out I arrived at Montevideo airport (for those of you that don’t know, Montevideo is the sketchy Uruguayan city one usually flies into to then drive two hours to Punta del Este) feeling refreshed (I was that passed out drooling person with a blanket over my head on the plane) and shocked [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 10, 2008
I don’t think my hands have ever been so thirsty for a keyboard. Part of this trip was the experiment of leaving all electronic devices behind. No laptop, no iPhone, no iPod. Basically me giving Steve Jobs a huge ´up yours´ finger in the face. I don’t know how any of us in 2008 manage [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 9, 2008
So, after nearly 2 weeks of silence, I have finally gotten word from Miss Model Behavior!!! Since her departure, an unfamiliar silence with echoes of loneliness and an impending sense that I am destined to be an old cat lady, has descended over my life in the absence of our almost constant contact - as [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 4, 2008
So the idea of a guest is not such a novel one. In fact it’s one of the most dreaded for me, especially at this time of year. To me, guest implies the obligation of hosting; and the idea of hosting implies the responsibility of entertaining, caring for, and generally being concerned about the well [...]
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Monday, December 29, 2008
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