You already knew this, but I bet you haven’t thought about it — Think back to your childhood, however remote or recent it is. I guarantee that at your lowest point, you listened to music. Whether this was an album, an 8track, a cassette or mixtape, or more recently a YouTube video, a playlist, or just a song on Spotify (or whatever the…

because people keep asking — This post is for tourists. Visitors. Couch-surfers and hotel denizens. Day trippers and those that are just passing through. For anyone who has ever stopped in Manhattan for a coffee with me and asked, “What’s it like to live here?” The answer is multifold, like the maps we no longer…

I have always been an avid reader. The first career I wished for, back when my third grade classmates were aspiring doctors or teachers or rock stars was (are you sitting down?) book critic. Yes. Book critic. Some clever librarian in a school library in Texas (or more likely some…

Cannabis takes over Lower Manhattan, in pictures — A Downtown Alliance publication reported that at one City Council hearing Gale Brewer was informed they may be up to 14,000 illegal shops in the city. I can tell you that on my one city block alone, these shops have opened:

learning from collective misery — I have a book club text group. We are avid readers, longtime friends, and truly love ideas. However, we have never managed to discuss a single book collectively because someone in the group was always was too busy to read to the end, and the rest of us have always…

Lateness is now entrenched in American culture I have two teenagers and a spouse, none of which like to rush. As a former actress, I was inevitably and always early. In the 90s, if you showed up less than four hours before an Equity audition in New York, you would…

Let’s discuss — Let’s start with a revelation that will surprise no one who knows me: I am an avid fan of public art. I live in Lower Manhattan and for decades, the fact that art appears on my walk to the grocery store, to the library, and to drop off or pick…

Count me in It is a little bit stupid how excitedly my neighbors and I have watched for the opening of the new Whole Foods at one Wall Street. After all, the Tribeca Whole Foods is only a fifteen minute walk away. …

Solving the problems of the world, one genius idea at a time. Hello writers — I know you’re a writer because no one else reads articles about book clubs or book reviews. If you are an editor or literary agent you are about to stop reading to go back to…