Category Archives: NYC
eleven months, and counting
Tomorrow marks exactly eleven months since I landed in New York City. It feels like an eternity ago. I’m the same person, essentially, but an entirely different person, fundamentally, than I was 333 days ago. Unless you’ve moved to a new city with almost nothing except an idea that things would work out, you can’t […]
Patti Smith’s advice to young people
Patti Smith | Louisiana Channel. This Patti Smith video (filmed at the Louisiana Literature Festival) touched me so much; she is so on-point with everything she says, especially about how life is about loss and tragedy but it’s also about some really fabulous times, too. FYI: Patti Smith’s Just Kids was one of the major influences in […]
on the wisdom of heeding (good) advice
Several weeks ago, I had an experience that felt like a white-light moment — you know, those instances when things fit together just right and every decision you’ve ever made feels as though it were precisely the right one to get you into exactly the place you were meant to be. I called a friend […]
