What’s green, has a hand size of about 5 meters across, and stands tirelessly on a pedestal? I guess the title of today’s entry already gave away the answer, eh? It’s been about 15 years since I last visited the Lady on Liberty Island, so on a recent very clear day in NYC, I made the pilgrimage with the rest …
ODJ Renewal
So if you click on the ODJ (Outfit Du Jour) link in the right column of my blog you’ll see that I dropped off at day 244. A few years ago. You know, laziness. But a few readers recently encouraged me to pick up where I left off so I’m going to shoot for an ODJ renewal this year and …
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Purse Fairy
On my last trip to Europe I was given a very special present from a dear member of my host family. I wrote about visiting her family farm back in 2008, where I first met her, and 3.5 years later I got to go there again to see a few renovations and additions to their Hermetton farm, which was now …
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Eating Brooklyn
Of all the times I’ve been to NY I’ve never strayed across the bridge to visit Brooklyn…till this trip. And as it turned out, it was there that I found my favorite pizza joint and bakery. Who knew I would love Brooklyn Heights (from where you could get a great view of Manhattan) and DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge …
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Wooed by Wu
So while you were all wooed by Wu a couple of weeks ago during the pre-launch buzz of the Target collaboration with Jason Wu, I was zipping through one of the many Smithsonian institutions during my free day. I stopped by the National Museum of American History, which I had never visited before, and saw the most incredible thing–the original …