Well, with all the birthday hoopla lately, about which I will be sharing more details over the next couple of weeks, we definitely did not have a spare moment to head to the beach. Our local beaches, in the Coney Island area are exciting but melancholy places. They give me the same mixed up feelings […]
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A week before my daughter was born, I was beginning to get a twinge of panic. We were having her way out in deep, dark Brooklyn, an hour’s drive if you hit full rush hour traffic. For most women that long drive in the back of a cab might be enough to worry about, but […]
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If you ask me to talk about coffee, or “cwafee,” as we’re prone to say up yonder, a certain longing will creep in. The taste is devine, the smell even better, but coffee does strange things to me. I remember lying on the floor in my best friend’s room in high school after drinking it, […]
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For this week’s corner view, we were supposed to give a little peek into the Great Outdoors around our ‘hood. It pretty much poured all of last week, but there was a break on Saturday. We hit the park for some playtime and sped around town on our scooters to the annual planting in Duane […]
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You’d think that with Issey Miyake a couple of blocks away and Soho a hop, skip, and a jump from our door, I’d be all OVER the shopping here in New York City. Well, usually I’m happier sniffing around the City’s greenmarkets or finding a flea market or vintage store on our side trips to […]
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I'm a New York City mum of three children—Mira, 8, Liev, 6, and our littlest Yummy, Genevieve, 2. I teach mommies, preschool kids, and grade school age children (or "Yummies" as I like to call them) how to make delicious things. Read more…