Start Spreadin' the News...

The drama level has increased in my life lately (Mom's inconvenient cancer has been trying to stage a comeback), and I needed one precious day away from everything. What better place to go than the place where, if I can make it there, I can make it anywhere. Last Thursday, I spent one glorious day in New York, New York. I have never had a bad time in that city, and I'm sure that my Guardian (Marguerite) lives there. First stop, the glorious SoHo, to have a delicious chocolate pear tart with my longtime "teaching twin." We went to a wonderful little cafe called Once Upon a Tart (onceuponatart.com) with a window chock-full of yummy pastries (sugar and fat-free, I'm sure).



We then went to one of my favorite SoHo shops-- Evolution (theevolutionstore.com). This shop is like the Museum of Natural Science but you can touch everything and buy things, too. Imagine running your fingers over a fossil that is more than 30 million years old! Usually, that stuff is behind glass, but not in Evolution.



Then I left my friend and went out on my own to Brooklyn, to visit an incredible perfume shop I had read about. Perfume is no fun to buy on the web... a pilgrimage was in order. I schlepped myself to CB I Hate Perfume and spent more than an hour filling my nose with scents like "garden tomato" "bonfire" and "roast beef." I ended up buying a few lovely scents such as "green vine" "white soap" and "california roll." In that shop, I was a little girl, trying on Mom's perfume. I even got to meet the owner, Christopher Brosius. It was just what I imagined it would be.






As I left that evening, I felt a little like New York during the last few years-- knocked on my ass, but slowly rebuilding.