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February 21, 2024
It’s been a bit since I added a new “These Are A Few Of My Favorite Things” to my blog. This entry has been a long nostalgic favorite: Old bowling Alleys. There is something fascinatingly grimy about an old school alley, something that the new and trendy lanes completely miss Read more…
December 1, 2023
It’s December! And the tree is officially up! So… a photoshoot.
April 21, 2023
Long time, no new addition to my ongoing series: These are a few of my favorite things. Well inside this magical field of 8 million tulips, I remembered. Two hours flew by like a few minutes. Have you ever seen something so beautiful then these colors as far as the Read more…
July 28, 2022
You might have forgotten since I told you in 2018, but I have a thing for tiki bars. Real ones. Ones that opened long ago. There are two in Los Angeles and I was happy to have hit them both, along with a new one which, of course, was not Read more…
June 4, 2021
Since it’s been a minute (2009), I feel it’s time to profess my love for Carnivals. There is something magical about all the onsets of Summer. And carnivals are wrapped up in that ertia (a word I made up meaning the opposite of inertia)… one of the many colorful ways Read more…
April 7, 2020
I have been devouring raw daikon… It’s a pretty hardcore snack, perhaps the gateway snack to my nibbling on raw horseradish! The radishes, in general, are pretty bad ass snacks. They’re roots, so they’re like taking a bite of the Earth, and their pungent spice knocks you out… like wasabi. Read more…
November 29, 2019
Ok, it’s been 11 years. So I suppose I can declare Thai crepe or Park Mor, a Thai dumpling filled with sweet turnip and peanut, one of my favorite things to eat. Now it is no secret that I am a huge Thai food fan. But this traditional appetizer is Read more…
October 19, 2019
Arts & Crafts, Beautiful Places Far Away, Nature, These are a few of my favorite things., Wanderlust
{It’s My Party 🎉, Part 1} When I thought about where I’d whisk myself off to for (triple prepositions!) my birthday, I asked myself, “Self, what would make your special day enjoyable?” To which I responded, “Being far away and on my own, a national park, an old cemetery, lots Read more…
September 10, 2019
Maybe I love these figs so much because I picked them myself. Off a tree. They were so plump, so sensual. Inverted flowers. Just like a woman. But it’s not just these figs I love. They’re one of my favorite things to bite, not that I go around keeping track Read more…
August 26, 2019
The Banyan Tree is pretty spectacular. It’s one of my favorite things. Those aerial roots that look like dripping liquid wood, its enormity… how can these trees just be hanging around regular streets without a crowd of people taking pictures of their amazing limbs. I mean besides us.
August 12, 2019
Officially one of my Favorite Things, I wanted to remind you all of the evocative beauty of the Swing Ride. These are from the Steel Pier in Atlantic City, Morey’s Pier in Wildwood, New Jersey, and Adventureland in Farmingdale, New York. The latter two are of my youth, where the Read more…
July 12, 2019
I’m a huge fan of Brooklyn artist Stephen Powers. His bright and colorful street art is so full of heart, so full of humanness. It is child-like yet potent with insight; the best of youth with the best of age. And since his art has joined the list of things Read more…
June 1, 2019
Arts & Crafts, Beautiful Places Close By, Eating Out, These are a few of my favorite things., Wanderlust
On this self-care Saturday, I gave myself beautiful things to see and to feel. I like to do this for myself often. In fact, this blog wouldn’t exist if I didn’t enjoy exploring, gratifying my own senses with awe and wonder, seeking things to think about, feel about, talk about. Read more…
April 22, 2019
Day 1 in Texas: Wild flowers say, “I do what I want!” And then I show up after to take a bunch of pictures. Like the orchids and sunflowers, they join the ranks of my Favorites Things… for their evocative power, their dismissal of the rules, the color they spew Read more…
May 19, 2018
I work several blocks away from Brooklyn’s historical Green-Wood Cemetery. And I had been meaning to get in there the entire school year. Now that the weather is relatively nice, I have taken a few opportunities to kill time, getting lost within its 478 acres. The cemetery is beautiful, quiet, Read more…
April 19, 2018
I’ve decided that today is Bangs Appreciation Day… just because. And just because I love beautiful things, including beautiful women, here are my favorite Bangs icons. Above, Hair Bang Royalty: Bettie Page. Below, the sultry Louise Brooks, silent film star of the Roaring 20’s. So I don’t know what Cleopatra Read more…
March 31, 2018
I love tiki bars. I love tiki bars more when they are not in a big city (like say Clifton, New Jersey where Lee’s Hawaiian Islander is… or this strip mall on Staten Island where Jade Island is) where their elaborate design features seem strange and random, where their girl-drink-drunk Read more…
March 25, 2018
In my youth, I had a thing for opaque white confections… marshmallow, nougat… To me, these were decadent treats far more alluring than chocolate and the multitude of brightly colored forms of cooked sugar. I knew them by brand names. Marshmallow Fluff and Charleston Chew (Not frozen, unless I’m at Read more…
January 24, 2018
A while back when I met an age milestone, I made a book of 50 things life had taught me so far. And I think I gave it to my Mom? After another milestone, I am now revisiting these and am set to create a brand new edition. Many of Read more…
December 31, 2017
I am enchanted by chubby male cardinals in the winter. I can photo-stalk them for hours. Though my camera insists on trying to focus on the falling snowflakes, I got a few good shots.
October 15, 2016
The Tennessee Border Show 12-2 p.m. on WKCR 89.9 fm, right after the Moonshine Show, is my favorite radio show. Named after Hank Williams’ darling song of the same name, the show “focuses on the masters of country music from the latter-half of the twentieth century… Over the years, the Read more…
October 9, 2016
I spent 12 hours in a sloth habitat in Oregon and learned so much about these fascinating animals. The habitat is part of Zoological Wildlife Conservation Center. They take in sloths who have lost their habitat due to logging or who have been orphaned. Below are my favorite pictures and a Read more…
July 7, 2016
When I picked up my rental car in Charleston and started on Highway 17 south to start my trip, I saw these sunflowers–a bright smear of yellow. Happy faces peeking from a lush sea of green. I love sunflowers. There would be hardly much more pleasing than to frolic between Read more…
March 25, 2016
There are not many things as beautiful as an orchid. So the New York Botanical Garden‘s orchid show (Orchidelirium), which exhibits thousands diverse orchids, is a heavenly way to spend the afternoon. The magnolias are blooming. And an azalea bush that beat the others to bloom.
July 7, 2015
I can spend hours in an Asian grocer, especially a gigantic supermarket like V & T in Hempstead. The packaging of the goods is a draw enough! But they are often very veg-friendly, albeit preservative and sodium-laden. Though Hempstead is a bit of a veg-void (except during the all-vegan Hempstead Food Read more…