Ordinary Canary

Horseshoe crabs, that is.
We spent the day on a boat puttering around Jones Inlet, which was developed in the 20s to be one of the more famous bits of Long Island shoreline. There’s an ampitheater and miniature golf and all variety of entertainments that make a day at the beach where you’re stuck [...]

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It’s been an amazingly full weekend.  On Friday, I started off right by reorganizing my office at work.  I’ve long felt unproductive in there, because my desk was oriented towards the wall, leaving my back to the office.  In order to see what was going on, I had to sit with my feet propped up [...]

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Here in NYC, it has become impossible to deny the fact that autumn is upon us. The temperatures have dropped significantly and I find myself wearing a sweater to and from work. Not yet a coat, thank goodness. I dread winter like nothing else.
I’ve been thinking a lot about my garden. [...]

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Dear Squirrel Who Keeps Eating My Home-grown Strawberries,
On the day of the Reckoning, you’re going to be first in line.
The store is down the street. Get your own.
Love,
Me

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It’s been a misty sort of day here, which translates into thick fog when I’m near home, since I’m so close to the ocean. We’ve been covered in fog for most of the last week, a very soft fog, the sort that covers you over like a soft blanket. You can see, but [...]

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This is the view from my desk, several months after I began the Great Plant Initiative at work. My second title at work is Office Gardener.
My tarantula fern looked particularly beautiful in the light, so I just had to share. A moment of beauty in the day.

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New York is being blanketed with her first snowstorm. This is particularly appropriate timing, since I spent yesterday hanging up holiday lights for the first time in my life. I’ve never had an outside to decorate before, but now that I have a house, the situation has changed. I even wrenched my [...]

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Aside from my current insomnia, it was another rather lovely weekend.
My house is well under way in being painted, but I still had to run around to hardware stores to pick up a few last colors. Damn my training in color theory that makes it impossible to paint everything one color because the [...]

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Some days it feels like I live in Disneyland. Last weekend was a non-stop party - first, an actual party that I threw for my friend Maya’s birthday. I spent the better part of the day cooking ridiculous amounts of food, which reminded me how much better my cooking is than the lunches I buy [...]

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Yesterday I had some friends over for an all day long barbeque, which was the first time they’d seen the house. We sat in the backyard with one of my mom’s plastic tables and a new grill that I’d picked up from Home Depot on Friday. It’s not a big fancy deal, since [...]

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