I should, I suppose, be thankful there isn’t any new snow on the ground. But you know what? It’s 18°F out (that’s -8° for you Celsius folks out there) with a wind chill that makes it feel like 4° (or -14°C) so I’m too cold to be grateful. When one is this cold, the only [...]

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I’ve been musing about the snow. Well, musing and whinging. So it was with great joy that I stumbled across the  City Bakery calendar of flavors for the 2011 Hot Chocolate Festival (their annual Feb event). Don’t think there’s enough varieties of hot chocolate to fill a whole month – even if it’s a short [...]

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Make. It. Stop. I like snow. I even love snow. I don’t love this much snow over this long a period of time. There is a reason I don’t live in Syracuse. Well, to be honest – there are a lot of reasons I don’t live in Syracuse but high on the list is their [...]

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I have a great fondness for the Flatiron Building. Located at the point of Fifth Avenue/Broadway and 23rd (punctuating Madison Park), The Flatiron (completed in 1902) is generally considered to be one of the first skyscrapers ever built. I used to work there – back in the day and people are always curious about that. [...]

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London has been very much on my mind of late – not just because I’m in the midst of a new Gotham Girl series over on the Boris Johnson site* Speaking of which – the latest edition is all about bike share programs. Of course, Gotham Girl is supposed to compare how London and NYC [...]

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