It was exactly one year and five days ago, when I announced the completion of my (first) book Lose the Gum. Several revisions later and it is now available for purchase on Balboa Press’s website as well Amazon and Barnes & Noble.com. The book is meant to be a survival guide for women on Wall …
Over the last several months, I received a number of emails asking me, why I haven’t been blogging. People seem to think that my new Manhattan lifestyle is just so fabulous and full of parties that I have foregone my purpose. Well, I would like to assure you that is not the case. Although my …
Russia’s bombing of Syria has much greater meaning than the context of Russia simply coming to aid of its greatest ally in the Middle-East. This is a very serious event that will set the parameters of Putin’s next strategic action. A few weeks ago, I watched the Putin interview on 60 Minutes. Amidst a barrage …
Last night I thought I was going to the movies at the IFC theater in the West Village, but instead I went back to Kyiv and joined the protests that took place at Maidan Nezalezhnosti, in November 2013. That is how vivid the depiction was by Director Evgeny Afineevsky in his newly released documentary “Winter …
Writers write. That being the case, I certainly haven’t been much of a writer lately… My summer was a hectic string of endless packing, un-packing and repacking. In past years, when I lived at the shore, my plans were made with carefree whimsy, as my mood would dictate what I was going to do in …
It seems that each day another story breaks about a crooked politician. And although some are outraged by the news, the vast majority seems to accept it, as what is becoming the new normal. We shrug our shoulders, roll out eyes and move on with our day without giving it another thought until the next …
I don’t usually follow boxing, but like most, I was swept into the vortex of media hype, for the Fight of the Century. And although I was compelled to watch The Fight, I made no real plans to do so. But life can be so anecdotal and so very accommodating. Yesterday morning a determined me, …
Life can be hard. It is a series of ups and downs that are not only driven by the challenges of daily life, but also by the biorhythms that control your overall emotional state. Any wrong combination of these two elements can send you on a downward spiral and into a dark place – or …
This morning I went to the East Village to visit the blast site where the three buildings burnt down to the ground. I knew this would be an emotional venture because these buildings were part of the background landscape of a neighborhood that is very close to my heart. It is a neighborhood that …
I don’t think that I could write about my Soho experiences without devoting a post to the Cronut. The Cronut has become an international sensation since its creation in 2013; and the bakery that sells the Cronut is located directly across the street from my apartment – which is not so great for my ass! …