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California

Pregnant in New York City

July 20, 2011

I spent my first two pregnancies in the calm, cool and collected corners of Northern California. My first was a winter baby, and while I remember it raining the day that we left the hospital, I don’t recall any other sort of climate inconvenience during those first, long nine months. I was thrilled about getting [...]

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Golden State Escape

June 29, 2011

We’re back in the city after an exciting, relaxing and restorative vacation back home to Northern California. Nothing like traveling back in time to land far, far away to gain a little perspective. Traveling to the airport and across the country alone with the kids was the easiest and smoothest to date… there were zero [...]

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Road Full of Promise: Two Years

May 14, 2011

Today marks the second birthday of one of the coolest, most poignant projects of my life. I’ve been blogging now for two years exactly, and while it feels about right, I’m still in awe at the freedom and joy that documenting our journey to New York City from California has brought me. When I started [...]

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Finding Home

December 7, 2010

I’ve fallen deeply in love with New York City. I feel the butterflies buzzing around in my stomach even when I have to navigate the mundane routine. Yet everyone knows that when it’s true love, the words “mundane” and “routine” cease to exist. This is a relationship that is bittersweet, though, as I know that [...]

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California

September 9, 2010

I couldn’t think of the best way to tell you about our glorious trip back “home” to California, so I put together a little slide show set to a song that I literally grew up with. And so my friends, I introduce you to my life, and my heart, in the Bay Area.

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These Dog Days

August 20, 2010

It’s been a really nice, busy summer.  I love that there is never a dull moment here in the city.  There is always something fun to do, and for that reason alone I never want to leave. Madison Square Park Kids throws a free concert for children on Tuesdays, and has many other programs geared [...]

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Project Mom: Life is a Highway

July 26, 2010

When I think back to my life a year ago, I feel like I was a completely different person.  A different mother, a different wife, a different daughter.  Before my family uprooted and left everything remotely familiar to live in Manhattan, I was a fraction of the person I am today. Life was  a diluted [...]

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Full Circle

April 27, 2010

When I was seven, I moved with my mom and my sister from the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio to the Bay Area, California. I was the cool kid in my hometown, a fantastic student (I was the Student of the Day nearly every single day), and I had tons of friends. Friends that I would [...]

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California Part Deux

December 16, 2009

We are here in California for the second time since moving to NYC in August. Seems like a lot, doesn’t it? It actually felt like a lot during our travels. We were so excited about coming for the holidays, but the family drama and the all around difficulty of travelling with the littles just made [...]

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Empire State of Mind

November 13, 2009

Whew. Well, we’re back in the city and honestly it feels amazing. This trip back to California was just what I needed. We missed daddy terribly, but it was good for him to put all of his energy into his first midterm (which he got a B on, yay!). He missed us too… I think [...]

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