Year in Review

Yes, I’ve been very bad about keeping up with my blog. I’ll add it to my list of “growth” areas for 2009.
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These past few months I’ve kept myself busy with various writing projects and with yoga. The studio at which I teach, Yoga to the People (a by-donation studio with locations on St. Marks Place [...]

Second best panhandler sign…

“Obama isn’t the only one who wants change.”
–on St. Marks Place, September 17th, 2008

Weather Report

I’m back in New York, where the weather really seems to have taken Memorial Day to heart. Suddenly, as of Monday, it is summer–I mean, it really feels like summer–and I am elated. I sort of die inside during the winter, when my wont to wander and drink outside is stifled by the cold… Winter [...]

Thoughts from the F Train

New York is never not beautiful to me. It was snowing all day yesterday and raining all day today but STILL New York is sublime: I love this city in all of its meteorological moods. Even if it’s not always picturesque, New York is ALWAYS cinematic.

Bonne année!

The fabulous Daryn Woodson (and self)
Happy New Year!!! I’m oddly optimistic about this year, if for no other reason than that 7 is one of my favorite numbers. 2003 worked for me by the same logic, so I figure…
I’m about to leave for New York in an hour and don’t have much time [...]

Back in New York

December 1st and it’s 65 degrees out. Eerie. Global warming takes all the joy out of unseasonably warm weather. Last night after class we all stood outside the journalism building in lightweight clothing and said to eachother, “This is really weird.”
It IS weird. I saw a girl walking down 14th St. [...]

Chez Jarrell

“It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.”
–Randall Jarrell