oh, little bird!

Behold the Black & White!

A little about New York and Hoboken...

My gosh, was it nice to be back in NYC if even for a couple of days! I no longer have that lumpish twist in my stomach, the one that took up a whole bunch of space while I was living there, until finally I realized that I just wanted to go home! Talk about a realization as relief! Anyway, now I can just go, catch up with my fabulous girlfriends, who just by laughing with and at me manage to throw things into a better perspective.

I can even say I miss New York, and Hoboken, too, even though it is totally wack expensive. Take the Garden of Eden specialty food stores (the one on Washington Avenue in Hoboken featured here). My friends and I decided that their new marketing scheme should be something along the lines of "The Garden of Eden - Our Prices are the Original Sin" or "Go on - you know you want to spent $4.00 on that petit-four." I came close to spending $5.00 on a small container of pita crackers and another $4.00 for hummous when I started to shake, and hightailed it to Quidoba for an enormous veggie burrito, which I did not need to eat in one sitting, but did.

My friend Paulette - wonderful, funny, smart, creative Paulette! - said, "Hey, what happened to Oh, Little Bird!"? And I didn't have a good answer - I was just touched and happy that somebody cared. Somewhere along the line I stopped feeling like I had anything interesting to say, I guess. This is a shame because I really started this thing for me as an exercise in creativity and as a means of forcing myself to put my ideas and thoughts out there, even if nobody else read it - that wasn't the point! (Actually, I was for the longest time hoping that nobody did read it, lest I censor myself too much). That said, I love writing, and I love taking pictures, so why wasn't I a bloggin'?

But these are new times...a new president, a fresh layer of snow outside after a crazy-wack snowstorm all yesterday and last night, I'm showered and clean and even did a load of laundry. Things are really good on this end.

Because of that, and for no good reason, I will share with you today and over the next few days - though not this weekend because I'm in Quebec City!!!!! - my photos of New York and Hoboken.

Et voila....