March 16, 2014

Dating in New York City

 car on street in daytime

As a reminder, my New Year’s Resolution was to start dating in New York City. I know. Yikes.  But now that we are easing into March, I feel have some helpful observations about dating in New York (spoiler alert: people don’t love it)Here’s what I think: Dating in New York City is hilarious.  Here are my favorite new things about dating in NYC: 1) It’s a casualhookup.com world.  It is totally socially acceptable, and almost expected, that 20s and 30s New Yorkers meet strangers on internet dating sites and then text them while intoxicated to meet up. Dinner and a movie?  Not going to happen.  Like NEITHER OF THOSE THINGS WILL…

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January 18, 2014

L’Eliser d’Amore (Elixir of Love)

 Lincoln Center Subway Station

Hi reader, Last night I saw the Metropolitan Opera production of Donzetti’s Elixir of Love.  Written in the 1831, the story centers around the quest of Nemorino, a young village guy in rural Italy, as she tries to win the heart of Adina, a successful farm owner.  While Adina is busy falling for an obnoxious, self-important army general, a traveling salesman passes through town peddling…..you guessed it….a magical Elixir of Love. Nemorino purchases the elixir at a premium and tragedy, confusion and comedy follow, ultimately concluding in happiness. Now I know that passion for opera is not what it used to be and I probably lost most of you at…

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January 1, 2014

New Years Resolutions

Hi readers, I want to talk about New Years Resolutions. Here’s why: First of all, I’m sitting in the airport waiting for a much-delayed flight back to freezing cold NYC and I need something to distract me from watching the poorly-attended-to children wreaking havoc on the terminal. Second of all, it’s New’s Years Day and ringing in the holiday with a peaceful, quiet evening in Florida gave me lots of time to reflect on resolutions of years gone by. I think it speaks volumes that I can never remember my New Years resolutions from one year to the next. It must be because I do such a fabulous job of…

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