Quotes...

Updated the blog to have quotes on the bottom... scroll all the way down and tell me what inspiration you find...

Oh yeah...

...and a pic of me, alive and doing well...

Gobble! Gobble!

Thanksgiving in New York... what's the old saying 'you don't know what you've got until it's gone'? Definitely missed my family and old friends this year. Plenty of time to think about Thanksgiving past: at Sara's house in Ohio my freshman year, at my grandmother's house in Brentwood, in the warmth of my mother's house. No matter where I've been, that one day of the year has always been filled with bustling commotion, heavenly smells, and lots of chatter... Something was different this year. The annual Parade down Broadway wasn't as fantastical, there were few phone calls and loads of text messages, and everything that the day was about felt more like a holiday on automatic. Or maybe I'm on automatic. Turkey - check. Pumpkin Pie - check. Progress in life - check? The food was still amazing and the company comforting...

Thanksgiving in Brooklyn









James carves the turkey...












The meal, part one:









The meal, part 15 - Rose's pumpkin pie:










After the meal... oh yes, Anne, pour another:

Perfect Day

It's been six years since I've seen an autumn this gorgeous. The leaves have fallen, the air has cooled, the jackets are out, but the sun shines warming the sidewalks and glistening miles of brownstone houses and yellow taxicabs. It's a day when you can breathe deep and watch the world get ready to bundle up. The passage of time happens so quickly when you glance back, but looking forward it seems that there is so much more to come. Autumn promises that summer days will be back again, only when you can appreciate it after months of blistering wind and ducking in and out of heated spaces. Am I ready for a New York winter? Is it the kind of cold that stops your thoughts and freezes your ambitions? Or is it the type of constraint that spawns ingenious ideas? Or does it all depend on what kind of warmth you have wrapped around you to keep you warm?

Would you stay in a hotel that looks like this...

http://www.kuenstlerheim-luise.de/en/rooms/306.htm

Halloween House Haunting...

Housewarming + Halloween =