Kiva loans

I have microlent to:

Hugo


Hugo
Location:United States, New York, New York
Activity:Transportation

Niètaga (le Succès) Group


Niètaga (le Succès) Group
Location:Mali, Koutiala
Activity:Retail

Jazmines Group


Jazmines Group
Location:Bolivia,
Activity:Services

My secret (breakfast) food shame:

My last secret food shame post is over two years old (and is the most commented post on this blog), so I think it’s time to confess another:

Not even Golden Grahams but knockoff Malt-O-Meal version Golden Grahams. “Don’t eat the fake Golden Grahams,” my husband will warn my kid. “They’re Mama’s. And you don’t want [...]

Summer brings a lot of things to NYC.

Some of these things are good.

Public pools. Outdoor movies. The free ferry to Governors Island, with its green lawns and panoramic views of the city, like so:

Gosh, isn’t that nice? Go ahead, click the photo to see it up close.

Well, come on back from your happy place now, because summer also brings some not-so-good things [...]

Too hot to blog today.

This picture of my sister’s dog, Lulu, really says everything you need to know about today, the first day of 90-plus degree temperatures so far this summer.

I’ll return with something more interesting later this week, but meanwhile, I’ve put up a new poll for you to answer. I’ve been sticking to a twice-weekly posting format [...]

Old Man Winter’s almost dead.

So far, more than half of you responded to this month’s poll saying this winter was worse than last year.

I know here in NYC, this past winter was just so… gray. An all the color had been drained out of the world kind of gray. I think the fact that there was no snow [...]

Feature idea:

I’ve been collecting a number of odd foods to start a feature called something like I eat it so you don’t have to.

Should these posts be:

a.) text with photos?
b.) audio with photos?
c.) video?

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