Whenever I think I'm going to swear off my online journal writing, suddenly I get the urge to write. So here it is. Latvia was even more amazing than I thought. Normund's family was so much warmer than I'd ever anticipated and I have three little nieces who speak english - Eva, Marta and Agia. Where to begin. Well when I first flew over I ( Read more... )

It's been a long, long time since I've written and so much is happening. The first big thing is that Normund left two days ago for Latvia. He hasn't seen his family in 11 years and I got an e-mail from him letting me know that he arrived safe and was very excited, but emotional. He surprised his family telling them that a friend was flying into ( Read more... )

In today's NYTs the headline reads:

"Women Likelier to Be Slain by a Partner Than a Stranger"
A woman in New York City is more likely to be killed by an intimate partner than by a stranger, especially if she is young and foreign-born, a new study by the city's Health Department concluded.

Fabulous.

The Hanson brothers are staying in the suite next to my hotel room. I can hear them. This morning they were downstairs flirting with 3 little groupies who were camping out in the lobby. They asked the boys (whoops men) to call their friends and say "Hi I'm Taylor Hanson." My boss and I rode up in the elevator with Zach (I think) and proceeded to ( Read more... )

There is nothing better than sitting a hotel room, oredering room service and kicking back to catch up on your movie watching. I got to L.A. this morning and am staying at a hotel in West Hollywood right off "the strip," which is conveniently located just behind The Viper Room. You know you're in L.A. when you have a star sighting, which I do ( Read more... )

I'm sitting here eating this amazing fillafel from this tiny little middleastern restaurant just off Union Square. Lunch has become a very important part of my life - if I don't get it just right the rest of my day is shot ( Read more... )

I have a few minutes before the weekend officially starts and it has been one hell of a week. I worked most of last weekend preparing for a press conference we had on Tuesday. The event went okay, we had 18 journalists and I met Jane Brody from the NYT whose column I've been reading for years. She is an amazing lady and was facinating to listen ( Read more... )

This past weekend marked the 7th anniversary of my move to NY. I love the fact that I followed my dream 800 miles from home and that I can say I made it here. I love the restaurants, theatre, culture and all of that jazz. However, lately I've been feeling a real need to get as far away as possible (even though I know that is at least 2 years down ( Read more... )

It was quite a successful weekend for Normund, Lindsay, T.S. and myself. It started off when I spent a small fortune on a Burberry raincoat along with a few other necessities at the outlets. Then we then went to RI, where we checked into an Inn, which was more like a seedy motel (it is so hard to tell what hotels look like on the internet). At ( Read more... )

This weekend will be 7 years that I've been an official New Yorker. There's been good times, low times, fast times, slow times, the best of times, the worst of times and times that I don't really remember ( Read more... )