For someone who is from the Northeastern United States, I frequently write about the American West Coast. Just last week, I wrote about Halloween costume shopping and funky drinks in Los Angeles, a city that is starting to become a second home. I feel more bicoastal, which is far more fun than feeling bipolar. For…
Category: Upstate New York
Summer of the Wee Beasties
In three weeks, I’ve been on two different antibiotics for two different infections. After avoiding antibiotics for years, believing my green smoothies and regular jogging protected me from almost everything, my summer embracing the outdoors has led to two trips to the doctor’s office and an afternoon cracking jokes in the emergency room. It was…
Two Very Different Sides of Lake Champlain
Lake Champlain is America’s sixth largest freshwater lake, and was once a hot spot of colonial military activity. Amid bear carving shops, ski resorts, and cafes serving fluffy flapjacks with thick bacon are forts and other nods to the region’s colonial past. Could 18th century northeastern Americans settling here have predicted that the lake would…
Shoveling Poop and Liking It
My husband was sweating through his T-shirt on a snowy Saturday morning in December, pitchfork in hand, goats milling about, and Diane the Mule looking at him like this city slicker desk jockey had truly lost his way. The barn was smelling better, but there was still a lot more to clean out, maybe another…
Discovering Something New in New York
When Washington Irving penned “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” in the early 19th century, could he have predicted jump starting a seasonal tourism machine? The country estates of wealthy Manhattanites had not quite taken over Westchester County when Ichabod Crane was riding for his life. But what hasn’t changed since Irving’s short story, published in…