When my mother began visiting me in the city, she repeatedly asked to go to Greenwich Village. I knew that the Village has played a major role in Bohemian American history, but just walking around down there it’s hard to see that. Washington Square Park is nice (when you’re not being offered drugs), [...]
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footsteps of history – paris 4 + nyc
Posted in NYC, paris on April 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
travelling by trunk – paris 3 + ohio
Posted in paris on April 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
My mother arrived in New York on Thursday a few hours after I returned from Paris. Apparently my brother has gotten back into skateboarding and has been airbrushing boards. She reported that last weekend, he wanted to go to a skate park in Kentucky but the car was full, so he rode down [...]
museum perspectives – paris 2 + nyc
Posted in NYC, paris on April 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In early February I went to MOMA for the first time in more than a year. The work that really resonated with me on this particular trip was a painting of a boy with a horse by Picasso. I analyzed each painstaking detail for awhile before reading the plaque beside it. The [...]
getting high around france – paris 1
Posted in paris on April 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »
My most frequent travel companion and I have created a rule for our adventures — if we can get up high or make loud noises, we’ll do it. My friend did not join me on my latest trip, a five day tour of Paris, but I still applied the rule.
On my second day in [...]
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