I went to the same high school as Ferris Bueller. Literally. John Hughes, the director of all those 80’s films also went to my high school and filmed scenes from that classic movie there. Interestingly, although all of his comedies were about teenage angst, when our school invited him back to receive a prestigious award […]
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How to SOULFUL New Year’s Eve (+ what I’m doing tonight)
NYC New Year’s Eve is notorious crazytown when it comes to festivities. Lots of non-natives, restaurants overflowing and even if you’re just trying to get to a super chill dinner party in Brooklyn, one still needs to contend with the aforementioned ambitious hoards. Usually gets a bit messy and loud: par for the course for the […]
>> keep readingjingle vs. juju: oh, the holidays: part 2
Black Friday. 40% off! Today only! We’ve never had a bundle like this! For those of you not in the States, you might not know that the day after our Thanksgiving holiday is known as Black Friday and the biggest shopping day of the year… then we give it a rest for the weekend and […]
>> keep readingPresence 2015: Is it time to drop your resolutions?
“We are too often lost in the abyss of unawareness. We regularly miss the energy and blessings around us, and the importance of this very moment. It’s as though we prefer to be elsewhere doing something else, as if we are living in distant time zones, hours behind or ahead of the joyous tick and […]
>> keep readingMy 100th blog. (cue the confetti)
“Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson Love you. That’s my bible. If you are in NYC, let’s do that in person. Thursday June 6th, 2013 + every thursday. downtown deeksha 7:15-8:15pm @ […]
>> keep readingClear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can’t Lose.
If you haven’t seen the 2006-2010 NBC sleeper hit series “Friday Night Lights,” really you should stop reading this and go Netflix it immediately. The show is structured around a high school team in Southern Texas (stay with me), but truly it’s about head coach Eric Taylor and how his career and family life tango […]
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This past Saturday, in Midtown East, my guy and I were bickering. Actually it was a fight. I tend to get feisty, but he’s usually pretty even keel with it. Not this time. It was a fight. Our first. I retreated to another area of his midtown apartment. Ugh, I hate midtown. My thoughts confirmed and […]
>> keep readingthe enlightenment of humanity + all that: 2012: a snapshot of where we are
I wrote this as a personal email to my local tribe. I thought it was worth posting a portion of it publicly. a love letter, a call, to the loves of my life– i know it’s been a rough year. i know sh** has been hitting the fan, the floor, the face, the ceiling. i […]
>> keep readingThe 4 Uber-Important Things I Learned From (literally) Falling on my Face
Last week I face-planted in the Hudson River bike lanes, on the West side of Manhattan. It was late, it was dark, I was tired, it was ugly. I was on the phone, via iPod earbuds, as per usual, riding around the city. The back, off-kilter tire I’d been meaning to bring to the shop, […]
>> keep readingThe sh**’s hitting the fan: Burn, baby. (pretty please?) Burn.
There was a moment a week ago, I seriously considered hopping into the Hudson River. I was over it. Finished. Done. Willing to give up. It was a rough month. A month where everything I had faith in and held dear was swept away, and my frustrated, angry sack o’ cells was left spent, annihilated, […]
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