2014: you’re looking pretty good
10 days in and January is looking pretty good, #GoTheDist wise: Steps:: 42,324 Miles Walked: 17.8 (both as of January 9) Miles Biked: 41.44 (as of January 10) Pretty impressed with the foot totals in...
View ArticleReview: Tinsel
Oh, and PS: I’d like to acknowledge the global economy, especially the credit and retail sectors, which fell apart between 2006 and 2008 and thereby made profligate Christmas shopping seem all the...
View ArticleLessons Learned: Coffee Grinds
tea leaves? Who needs tea leaves? I can tell my fortune in coffee grinds thanks to the Polar Vortex making it too cold to walk to Dunkin’ daily. That, and I looked at my Mint figures and realized I...
View Article#GoTheDist 2014: One Month in
January stats: 185,545 steps 80.3 miles walked 69.3 miles ridden Happy all around especially with the polar vortex. I’ll have to push it, but the Q1 goals (700,000 steps, 300 miles walked and 75 miles)...
View ArticleReview: Hidden Treasures: What Museums Can’t or Won’t Show You by Harriet Baskas
Hidden museum treasures. I am such a nerd. Nerd. NERD. NERD. and I love it and wouldn’t change it for the world. Anyway, book #3 of this year: Hidden Treasures: What Museums Can’t or Won’t Show You by...
View ArticleOfficially Team @FitBit
my Jawbone apparently celebrated my two millionth step a little too hard last Friday, because now it’s dead. Utterly and totally toast. So I went out and got what I wanted back in May: the Fitbit Flex....
View Article#GoTheDist: Feb 2014
I knew February was going to be down due to three+ days of lost tracking, but it actually wasn’t as bad as I feared. February 2014: 69.miles walked (165,667 steps), 16.69 miles biked. Great, no. Good?...
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Review: This Ain’t No Holiday Inn
Hotel Chelsea, February 28, 2014 Yesterday, I was in Chelsea for lunch and I found myself thinking of the Chelsea and decided to find it. When I did, and posted the photo (and the one above), I...
View Articleneighborhoods: mini cities in their own right
as I was taking advantage of today’s brief flirtation with spring, and sitting, reading on one of the many Finley Walk benches, I plotted several errands I needed to run. One of them was on 96th St....
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Henderson Place
Henderson Place Historic District sign on E. 86th St. I can’t even count the number of times I’ve walked past these buildings on E. 87th or East End and wondered what relic they were… and then I...
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Invisalign is the new Weight Watchers?
Over the weekend I was kicking myself for missing my Weight Watchers anniversary, but then on the way home today I realized that I got my Invisalign very close to my WWversary. Now what on earth do...
View Article#GoTheDist Q1 in the books
while I hit my official #GoTheDist goal (2 a few days early, I did not hit my personal goal. My personal Q1 2014 goals were: 700,000 steps 300 miles walked and 75 miles on the bike. Totals for March:...
View ArticleOverthinking Tourism in the South
“The crowds continue to visit the dead. They walk through the gates at Auschwitz. They take the boats to the USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor. They hike through battlefields and slave auction sites.” ~...
View ArticleReview: Jeneration X
So I realized something sad when I started to read Jeneration X, Jen Lancaster’s 2012 “chapter” of her non-fiction series: I think I’ve outgrown it. This is equal parts sad and odd because a) I used to...
View Article#GoTheDist 2.1, Went!
Totals for April: 298,822 steps 123.44 miles walked Personal Q2 goals, you are well in sight. As is the official #GoTheDist goal of 350 miles walked. If I’d realized how close I was to 300K steps or...
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9/11 Remembered
The new museum must help those unborn or unaware on 9/11/01 to understand an awful time. That means telling stories. ” ~ Rick Hampson (with audio) Reflections of WFC in the South Tower pool...
View ArticleLower East Side Then and Now
for all the tours I’ve done with the Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy, I had only done a mini tour of the Lower East Side. It was time to fix that, so I joined this weekend’s tour, the Lower East...
View Article#GoTheDist 2.2
About halfway through May I realized that 300,000 steps for the month was doable after just missing it. And then I became a woman on a mission to make it happen. I wasn’t sure if I had since I was away...
View Article99 places to go
well at least that’s the challenge I saw upon reading Daniel Smith’s 100 Places You Will Never Visit, one of the titles I’ve finished in a recent reading marathon that is bringing my 2014 total toward...
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Then and now: Eldridge Street Synagogue
Interior: Museum at Eldridge Street “I made a couple of calls and believe the sign will be safe,” she said. And so, for the moment, would be one other vestige of the Jewish Lower East Side. In reading...
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