A Year In New York

Today Joo and I visited the Cloisters, a few acres of European monastery grafted onto the northern cliffs of Manhattan.
A branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cloisters bills itself as a museum of medieval history, but it looks and feels like a place for prayer. It sits in Fort Tyron, which was rescued [...]

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As I ran through Central Park I saw a woolly little dog trot onto the crosswalk at East Drive. Trailing a good ten yards behind him was an old lady in a large hat, and ten yards beyond, another merry little pooch brought up the rear. Everybody was unleashed. The furry dog brothers smiled the [...]

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I looked out the window this morning. Still raining after yesterday’s deluge. I got my things together to spend the day at Paragraph, the writing space where I work, and attend an evening workshop on Wordpress, the software that runs this site.
Before leaving, I opened my computer and got this email:
“We’re closing Paragraph because [...]

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I proudly present my first movie. After returning from India last month, I reviewed the footage and thought, “People have got to see how crazy traffic is in India.” This is a road trip where the biggest adventure is the road itself.
I fed the movie into two services, Viddler and YouTube, as I search for [...]

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This post comes from Chennai, the largest city in southern India, where in a few days (on Jan. 9) my love Anjali and I will have a traditional Hindu wedding ceremony.  Just about everything is different than it is in New York but I thought I’d share the very most obvious: traffic.
First of all, I [...]

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Loyal reader Melissa Griffiths pointed out recently that my RSS feed was broken, and that any attempt to subscribe to AYINY resulted in a page of gobbledygook. After a few sparring sessions with my computer I persuaded it to work. You’re free to subscribe again.
For those not in the know, that “RSS” button on the [...]

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You’re probably wondering what I’ve been up to in the three weeks I’ve been gone. The hands-down most important event was the birth of my new nephew, Quinn William Sears. He was born Oct. 3 to my sister Susan, a few weeks early. Both he and his mom are healthy.
Susan is my only sibling and [...]

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Alas, A Year In New York is on ice for a few weeks. Events beckon me away. My sister is having a baby, and I have three weddings to attend.
All of this is happening in and around California, as my friends and family stubbornly insist on living out their lives on the West Coast.
A Year [...]

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I have created a page on Flickr for the A Year in New York photos you won’t find anywhere else. Check it out for a quick, photographic survey of the year so far.
Bookmark it here:
http://flickr.com/photos/a-year-in-new-york/

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An alert and most excellent reader (that’s you, Chris!) brought to my attention that my RSS feed was broken. I am happy to say it’s been fixed. Now you can get updates from A Year In New York sent to you as soon as I post them. Get ‘em while they’re hot!
If you haven’t used [...]

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