August 2011
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PERFECT ON PAPER and a Glass of Champagne on...
Every year I celebrate the beginning of summer by going out to Brighton Beach, and nibbling on red caviar and sipping light champagne at one of the Russian restaurants - either Tatiana’s or the Winter Garden - on the boardwalk. I always drink lots of water too to avoid a nasty dehydration headache :)
I took this photo in April of last year, when I trekked out to the beach, and brought...
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(Bitter)Sweet Melissa and Joan Didion's "Goodbye...
Not that Joan Didion’s writing could ever really be characterized as “sweet” but Pier 1 Cafe on the Upper West Side, at the Hudson River, is one of my favorite places in NYC (or at least it used to be), and thus seemed to be the perfect place for me to go when I wanted to re-read her 1968 essay “Goodbye to All That,” about her decision to leave New York. I needed to...
