Author: sara

Listen, I know I already posted earlier today, but, seeing as I’m up in the country, in between deadlines, it’s in the 40s outside (the 40s! It was 90 here two weeks ago!), Trouble is off at work (and, honestly, I don’t quite have enough to do with myself these days. I can only check …

I admit, I’ve been a little cranky with New York lately. Well, okay, these past few years. As anyone who has ever lived in New York knows, she can mess you around. She always has a way of kicking you when you’re down. But when you’re riding high, she can make you feel, oh… I don’t …

I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that an unusually warm spring will follow an unusually warm winter. And yet, these past couple of weeks, as the Northeast has been softened by temperatures in the mid-70s, I still wake dumfounded to find the ground warming and the leaves peering out from their buds. After two weeks …

I woke up this morning staring at a brick wall. It took me a few minutes to acclimate, as the birds have found their way back to the scraggly courtyard behind my Prospect Heights apartment. But the sound of them always makes me think I’m in Western Massachusetts or, even stranger, there are mornings where …