This guy was awesome, truly. Day 4 Saturday. Our last full day. How had it gone by so fast?? First up for the morning was Michael Parish Dudell, fresh back from . . . I don’t know, somewhere snowy! He’d finally caught a flight and was kind enough to come talk to us, even though [...]
Day 3 On Friday morning we all met up at a supermarket around the corner from Victoria’s apartment (not the market pictured above) for a guided grocery store tour. The idea here was that Victoria would teach up how to help people shop their local, non-fancy, non-hippie grocers. This is something I’ve done to help [...]
Harlem is so beautiful! A lonely street on a very early, very frozen winter morning. Day 2 Thursday began brighter and earlier, with a 7 am wakeup call. Lord help me! I grabbed a complimentary coffee on my way out the door, which helped to keep me warm on my walk to Victoria’s. Breakfast was [...]
At the end of February, 2013, I embarked on a week-long adventure in New York city. It was a gamble to say the least, but I was willing to make the bet since, you know, it’s my future and all. Pursuing my passion versus taking a day job – to me that’s a no brainer, [...]
Oh Photo Booth, why you be flippin’ my books around? Last summer I picked up a book called Bright Sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America. It was an illuminating experience, to say the least. The author explores a lot of ideas that had already been bothering the back of my brain, things that just [...]
