I've just discovered a new band through a friend in NY who describes herself as being "in passionate love with Mumford and Sons." Well put! I think I may very well be in passionate love with them myself. Miriam is all kinds of awesome - she's a steampunk and a tallship sailor who knows as many or more sea shanties than Noam (which to me is ( Read more... )

Noam's handsome mug got lots of play in the NY press but here's one of us together! It's a screenshot from a video slide show.


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Gearing up for a really big weekend in New York City ( Read more... )

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Okay, so it's technically candlelight not firelight, but I was on an alliterative roll there. Boogie woogie is best when it's live! (And served by candlelight with a dark chocolate stout beer float.)

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An unexpected encouter with a park full of fireflies in the midst of Manhattan a few weekends ago. Trés romantique!

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Can I just say how great it is to share a fridge with someone who
a) does not gouge the butter!
b) knows what that means!
c) does so without me even saying anything!

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Oh my goodness, I spent HOURS on Offbeat Bride tonight! Not to mention lots of other wedding dress sites...


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"There were no moral implications in Arthur Green's watering the Scotch; it was purely an executive manuever." Thus begins the first paragraph in the first chapter of one of the best books I have ever read.

I feel like I have accomplished some herculean feat! Today in the mail came the book that I have been searching for for over 12 years:


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Have I mentioned lately how much I love New York? This is the sight that we woke up to on Friday morning:


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The Blue Wedding to the Sky - this was such an amazing, magical and wonderful day! I love Annie and Beth. They are a wonderful example of a healthy, balanced, and grounded loving relationship and I am so lucky to know them. I look back on this day as one where I was truly and simply happy.

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