My pumpkin is the best pumpkin that ever was! So excited. And, it finally feels like fall!
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Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough… Continue reading
Cute DIY card idea for any map-lover. Instructions here. HINT HINT!
I LOVE this photograph that my friend Jared snapped recently. He captioned itHudson River Sunrise from Ossining Oct.2011 Good reason to be outside for sunrise.
Wisdom, revamped.
I like both the quote (over-quoted as it is….though is it realllllly hers? and is it really that simple?) and the edits for quite different reasons. Mead’s empowering, idealized sense of communities working together is juxtaposed with Josh Miller’s pointedly cynical (but fair!) snark, which together, are both hilarious and sincerely wonderful. To me, it shows… Continue reading Wisdom, revamped.
You might not want to read this.
NYC has now put all of its health inspections online in a really great searchable format. The criteria for scoring is certainly interesting and I love the transparency. BUT I got curious about what in my neighborhood got lots of violations and is STILL OPEN. This place Beast that I like, for instance, is still open,… Continue reading You might not want to read this.
Cows: what you never knew. Check out that stomach! All this and more unnecessarily wonderful knowledge at the website that knows everything (or that I at least assume to be generally correct). Wikipedia gives different sorts of info; I’m pretty sure you never actually have to meet a cow if you consume both fact-laden webpages. But… Continue reading
This made me giggle so much. It should be on Google Costumes!
You have to know who has the solution and how to be able to ask him how to do it…[The] learning, culture, sociology of the job, that’s what you need someone’s advice about. Henry Louis “Skip” Gates at the Aspen Institute conversation series on October 6.
At least the recession can sound good.
College buddies Ryan and Kyle, now The Bull & The Bear, have an album Recession Sessions and were recently featured on NPR. They do a lot of work benefiting charity, and you should check them out in a city near you!
Jen Bokoff 
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