Although I’ve been a resident in New England for 20 years, it had never come to pass that I would spend the new year celebrating in New York City. This year, I finally checked that off my bucket list. (The video above is not mine, but works for the purposes of the illustration.) Continue reading
The company for which I’m employed, Pixafy, moved offices in September. Unlike the last move, which was literally a block uptown from the previous office, but both were around 31st Street and Park Avenue South, this time we made a larger move and ended up at 53rd Street and 7th Avenue, putting us right outside of Times Square. The adjustment to the commute over, I’ve been increasingly taking in what my commute now contains. Continue reading
I’m woefully behind yet again with the blog, but I’m getting better in some ways; I used to forget about things I wanted to write about; now I have drafts of topics that just aren’t written. But they’ll get there. One topic awaiting a write-up, but relates to a recent trip, is seeing things through the filter of memories, and of childhood, vs. today. Continue reading
When my family first moved to Connecticut, we signed up for accounts at People’s Bank in Bridgeport. We ended up there solely because my father, who had moved up to the state a few months before, got an account there. Going on 20 years later, the now-renamed People’s United Bank, excepting a brief, horrid flirtation with Fleet (now Bank of America) when I was in college), has been my steady,long-term relationship of a bank. Continue reading