Tag: New York

  • Living in Bushwick

    Living in Bushwick

    I loved New York. The screeching subways, the sidewalk Mariachi band members wearing shoes made of real alligators, the shopping in SOHO, the twenty dollar drinks at the hole-in-the-wall pubs, and the high-paying jobs by Midwest standards, the good, the great, and the crazy: I loved it all, at least for the moment. Our first…

  • Bad Apple

    Bad Apple

    Amanda traded her pencil skirts and Manolo Blahniks for jeans and faded leather boots, and her high-paying career as an attorney in New York, for solitude on the farm. Walking away from her New York life was easier than expected, but then again… *** She stared at the sun setting behind the rows of apple…

  • A New York Minute

    I am perfectly content in my city.  We have purchased or first home here,  made friends here and have family here.   Life is really great.   But I have to admit that I would be a liar if I said I didn’t miss New York, if only just occasionally.  There are things that only New York…