Breakneck Ridge is a mountain just off Metro North with fairly rigorous hiking options. Armed with water, some empty coffee cups, Burts Bees Chapstick, and two bananas, Valerie and I hiked the white to blue to yellow trails, covering well over 6.5 miles of strenuous trail (not including the highway, which was a whole other… Continue reading Awesome Day Trip: Breakneck Ridge
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This is part of a Photograph By Number map project in Somerville, Mass. The idea is to bring each block of an amazing and diverse city to life through collaborative photography. I’m way into this idea, and happen to find the couple photographs that Ian took quite striking. Anyone know of other locations where this exists?
How’d Pac-Man get up there?!
I cannot find either of these games on Boardgame Geek (my authority on board games), but I saw them today while walking through Williamsburg. There has definitely been an evolution in ‘mainstream’ boardgames (the ones we all know: Monopoly, Connect 4, Chutes and Ladders, etc.) to depict a more racially diverse crew of kids on… Continue reading
The Stanley Cup is great and all, but this is greater. I love Make Way For Ducklings and how it’s memorialized.
Help me write a poem. Nifty cause.
A very dear friend of mine had a super unique idea to collect poems from her friends for her 25th birthday. We were given free reign; it can be “your favorite, an original, something silly or sweet, meaningful or obscene - whatever you feel”. I like it, especially because we’re thousands of miles away and it’s a… Continue reading Help me write a poem. Nifty cause.
I’ve narrowed my career ideas! I have no interest in polar bear dentistry, as cool as it looks.
Free outdoor space WiFi!? Why can’t more neighborhoods do this?
I’m hugely supportive of this effort… good work Dumbo! What a great way to draw people to public spaces and provide a very tangible service at low cost. Free outdoor space WiFi!? Why can't more neighborhoods do this?
The Little Red Lighthouse. Pretty wonderful, except it came from New Jersey. (yes, there’s a children’s book too.) (yes, that’s me posing. let’s also be clear, I’m not a model.)
A small but beautiful part of the Conservancy Garden.
Jen Bokoff 
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