by NYCGirl
on February 7, 2013
The conversation between me and my 5 year-old son the first time I got behind the wheel after a 20-year hiatus from driving while living in NYC:
Leo: “Mom, do you even know how to drive?”
Me (defensively): “Of course I do!”
Leo: “Then how come I’ve never seen you drive?”
Me: “You were in the car but you were sleeping.”
It had come to this. Lying to my five-year old to make myself feel better. A little known but not un-common side effect of living in NYC since your late teens is that you don’t know how to drive, or if you do you could go years without getting behind the wheel. In fact, I’ve known some born and bred New Yorkers who didn’t even have a driver’s license. The truth was, I was shaking in my boots the first few times I got behind the wheel. It took all the courage I could muster to drive 40 minutes to Target for the first time, but despite the crazy rode rage lady who gave me the finger after I cut her off near the light (I told the kids she was speaking to us in sign language), it all worked out okay.
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by NYCGirl
on December 2, 2013
I have what may be viewed by some as an irrational, exuberant, over the top love of stairs. It began when a friend introduced me to the stairs on Magnolia Street in Larkspur. I climbed them each morning for months then moved on to the six hundred plus stairs at the foot of the Dipsea [...]
by NYCGirl
on June 15, 2013
Women of Marin, put down that logo handbag! You buy your organic dairy from grass-fed cows lovingly raised on a nearby farm. You scour the farmer’s market for produce picked mere hours before being sold at the stand. When you do actually eat carbohydrates, you buy locally prepared artisanal bread and pasta. The fact is, [...]
by NYCGirl
on May 30, 2013
If you stop by the Off the Grid Picnic at the Presidio, be sure to come hungry. Every Sunday between March through October from 11-4 the Main Post Lawn is lined with vendors from some of San Francisco’s best restaurants, farmer’s markets and retail shops. They even have games for the kids and, my favorite, [...]
by NYCGirl
on May 26, 2013
From May 22, 2013 through May 26, 2014 visitors to Crissy Field can enjoy a public art installation by artist Mark di Suvero courtesy of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The installation is composed of eight impressive sculptures spanning up to fifty feet high and forty feet wide. Crissy Field, with its spectacular [...]
by NYCGirl
on April 30, 2013
When AmberLee Fawson, a self-proclaimed hot chocolate addict created a recipe for hot chocolate on a stick and posted it to her (insanely popular) blog four years ago it quickly became one of her most popular posts. She received so many requests to make it available for purchase that she soon realized she had hit [...]
by NYCGirl
on April 2, 2013
Shirley Tsung-Crowley did not start out designing jewelry. In fact, after getting her degree in biotech and microbiology she worked for ten years in the pharmaceutical industry. Though she always loved science, her passion remained with the arts and, inspired by a hand-made necklace given to her by a friend, Tsung-Crowley tried her hand at [...]
by NYCGirl
on February 7, 2013
Since becoming a mother I have given up many things: free time, sleep, my dignity. But I absolutely refuse to give up my sense of style. When my friend, Mike, learned that I was moving to Marin he warned me, “You won’t be able to wear any of your clothes there. They don’t dress in [...]
