This weekend is the Brooklyn Book Festival and if you’re here and looking for something to do, I highly recommend making a visit to Downtown Brooklyn to check it out. The festival itself is on Sunday, September 20, but there’s also a full day of events on Saturday, September 19, called Children’s Day, and other events this week. Some events are indoors but a lot of them are outside on Cadman Plaza — easy to get to from Manhattan or elsewhere in Brooklyn!
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I walked out of my apartment yesterday morning and it felt like fall. There was a freshness to the air that’s missing in summertime, and I breathed it in and thought, YES. I know this isn’t a popular reaction – people on the elevator at work are already bemoaning the fact that the coming of fall means the coming of winter – but I’m ready. After a summer of visits with friends and weekend trips and weddings and running around, I am ready for a slowdown. I know it’s a short one and that the holidays will be here very soon, but I’ll take what I can get.
First posted on September 11, 2013.
My memories of September 11, 2001, aren’t very clear. I was in eighth grade, and I’m fairly certain I was in history class when we heard. But I can’t remember whether or not we saw any of the coverage on TV, or how they told us, or what they told us. There are some things about middle school that stand out clearly in my memory, but a lot of it is lost, and the details of September 11 went with it.
This time of year is all about life anniversaries for me. I moved to New York five years ago and started my first job a few days later. Not quite two years later I changed jobs within my company, and about a year later – two years ago today – I started this blog.
TWO YEARS AGO. I remember thinking that summer, hey, I need to write more, I should start a blog. And I wrote some sample posts to get out ahead of myself – yeah, that doesn’t happen anymore – and then on September 7, 2013, I put up my first post. I was still figuring out what I wanted to do with my blog, what exactly I wanted to write about, but I knew I wanted to show you all a bit of what New York is to me. I’ve tried to both open a window on what life is like here, for those of you who are far away, and to make suggestions of things to do for those of you who are here, by sharing what I’ve enjoyed.
Mark your calendars for the weekend of September 25-27: square dancing is coming back to Bryant Park! It’s on their calendar so it must be true, and since unlike most of the things I post about, this is a time-sensitive activity, I figured three weeks notice was only fair. That’s plenty of time to get excited, and to figure out which of your friends you might be able to convince to go with you. There are three nights of dancing — Friday 9/25, Saturday 9/26, and Sunday 9/27, all from 6 till 9.
So apparently a long weekend in Maine is a thing New Yorkers do in the summertime. I knew this, vaguely, from the five summers I’ve been here, but it really became clear this month. Once I was planning a trip to Maine, I started noticing other people were going there too – from NYC bloggers I follow to several of my coworkers.
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