This is the start of my last week in South America, so this will be my last scheduled post. Soon I’ll be back in Brooklyn and excited to start sharing photos and stories from the trip! I’ve tested out a lot of travel gear over the years, so I thought I’d share my 5 favorite travel… Continue reading Packing: My 5 Favorite Travel Accessories
National Poetry Month
Isn’t the month of April lovely? Not only is it the month where we shed off winter completely and start to smell new life in the air, it’s also National Poetry Month. Springtime and poetry go so well together, don’t you think? One of the very best poets to help us appreciate the splendor of… Continue reading National Poetry Month
Backyard Birds of Brooklyn
(Note: I am currently traveling for a month in South America, and am on a short blog hiatus while I’m away. I wrote this post before I left and scheduled it to post. While I’m off on a quest to see the amazing animals of the Galapagos and the Amazon, I thought it would be… Continue reading Backyard Birds of Brooklyn
Better Than Before by Gretchen Rubin
(Author photo above is by Joi Ito // CC BY 2.0) I really like Gretchen Rubin’s two previous books on happiness, The Happiness Project and Happier at Home. I was very excited to learn she was releasing a new book about habits: Better Than Before, and signed up to receive a review copy from the publisher. It’s… Continue reading Better Than Before by Gretchen Rubin
Brief Blogging Hiatus: South American Travel
Galapagos penguin by Zoran Kovacevic // CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Tonight Graham and I are setting out for a month in South America! We’ll be headed to the Galapagos Islands first, and then to Peru for 3 weeks, including Machu Picchu and the Lares Trail, and 3 days in the Amazon Rainforest. We are both excited, but we display… Continue reading Brief Blogging Hiatus: South American Travel
Sunday Night Lunch (Weekly Recap 3.8.15)
This morning I’m spinning with my team at Cycle for Survival in Bryant Park to fight rare cancers. This is my fifth year participating, and it’s a charity that means a great deal to me. Rare cancers are underfunded by major drug companies, even though cancers classified as “rare” make up about 50% of all… Continue reading Sunday Night Lunch (Weekly Recap 3.8.15)
Polysyllabic Spree – February 2015
Despite being the shortest of all months, February was not too shabby! And I always consider it a personal victory when I manage to read more books than I buy. Here are the books I read and bought in February. Books Read: 11 Already reviewed: The Wave in the Mind by Ursula K. Le Guin A… Continue reading Polysyllabic Spree – February 2015
Words to live by: Henry David Thoreau
I read Walden for the first time in college, for a course that turned out to be my favorite class I’ve ever taken: United States Intellectual History. We studied American history through the writing of the country’s brightest and most important authors. We read the Lincoln-Douglas debates. We read James Madison. We read Walden, Tobacco… Continue reading Words to live by: Henry David Thoreau
My first journey to Earthsea
Nearly 10 years ago, right at the time one of the later Harry Potter books was coming out, I was home visiting my parents in Michigan so that I could attend a midnight book release party with my Mom. (Yes, I traveled 700 miles to go to a book release party.) My Dad has always… Continue reading My first journey to Earthsea
The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce
In The Wave in the Mind, Ursula K. Le Guin explores in one essay the “unquestioned assumptions” in literature – the ways in which mainstream literature – the kind that gets widely featured and celebrated and awarded – often wrongly assumes that readers relate to a limited “type” of characters. The books featured as “of general interest”… Continue reading The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce
One Year Ago
One year ago today I got on an airplane heading west, to San Francisco. Four months and fourteen countries later I arrived back in New York City from the other direction. My trip around the world changed my life, and I’m so grateful for every moment, every experience, and all the incredible people I met… Continue reading One Year Ago
Sunday Night Lunch (Weekly Recap 3.1.15)
There is icy sludge surrounding my city, but let’s not let that stop us from getting all cozy and talking about books and other great stuff this week, sound good? Good! First of all – it was a delightful week in blog-land and Twitter-world meeting a lot of new-to-me Book Bloggers thanks to this lovely… Continue reading Sunday Night Lunch (Weekly Recap 3.1.15)