Youth is wasted on the young. The exact quote from George Bernard Shaw is:      “Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.” This is something I am acknowledging more and more each day. I somehow didn’t appreciate this statement when I first heard it. But like most popular phrases it speaks the truth. I am currently at the ripe old age of thirty-four and I feel like this year I have been living my life to it’s fullest. As a chronic migraine patient I have spent the last few years focused on nothing but my health. Well actually that isn’t true. I was focused on all of the dreams floating around in my head between bats of excruciating pain. In truth I feel like I was Sleeping Beauty but instead of a prince’s kiss, Botox was the key to unlocking me from my slumber. As more time passes this year the more I am realizing how much I was living in a fugue like state. I feel like whatever I did the last few years happened to someon...

I haven’t had a meal that has satisfied me in weeks now. I don’t know what the problem is. I am sick of everything I eat and never know what I am in the mood for should I actually try to figure it out. I think I know what I want but when it arrives I am disappointed, over it, or no longer hungry. It wouldn’t be such a problem except I am going to starve to death, eventually. Though I am sure I have a few years of living off my land before I have to truly worry about that. In keeping with tradition I returned to Garguilo’s in Brooklyn last week. It is an annual dinner I attend where my friends and I celebrate all of our birthdays’ in one great dinner. I had been looking forward to it for some time. I know the restaurant and how many great dishes they serve. At that point my only problem was…you guessed it! What do I order? As with most restaurants I have a favorite dish that I repeat no matter how enticing the other menu items are. Here my favorite is the fettuccini Alfr...

As a chronic migraine sufferer there are many places that can trigger a severe migraine just from entering the room. One of the worst happens to be wedding halls. Weddings themselves in my family and friends lives come up quite frequently sometimes leaving me no time to recuperate from the first attack before another one comes full on. Picture the Atlantic Ocean, during the summer, at the height of hurricane season. A category four hurricane is about to make land fall on the northeastern coast line of the U.S. while there is a tropical storm right behind it that is on its way to becoming a hurricane and scheduled to make land fall at the exact same spot as its predecessor. Not to be melodramatic but it is like the eye of Hurricane Katrina landed in the middle of my brain. With this in mind you can understand, hopefully, why I don’t entirely love weddings or big loud parties despite the happy occasions I want to celebrate. Each time I try to brace for it as best as possibl...

Well it’s that time of year again. Today is the day I will announce my updated to do list for the coming months. I am a little bit behind because there seems to be more and more places I MUST add. There is so much to do, so much to write about that this priority I fear has been neglected. While always on my mind I wanted to figure out a new way to evaluate the places I want to go and why. Going into the sixth year of this blog it was definitely time to step up my game a bit. With that in mind, I have decided to change my methods up a bit. This year I am going to separate what remains from last year and what I plan for this year. I will breakdown activities and restaurants by borough and/or state, if they are in the tri-state area. I think this will give me and hopefully you a new perspective when approaching your bucket lists. I hope this makes planning out my time much more easy to be able to look with a quicker glance at what I can do, whenever I am in the area. Yes I do prin...

I am having the strangest sense of deja vu. After the election in 2008 I was devastated. Although I was happy to finally have another Democratic in the office after the George W. Bush tragedy a.k.a. his eight years as “President”, there wasn’t anything I could foresee that could be worse. I felt safe that Secretary Clinton was in charge of the State. But now Trump is the front-runner this time around. Honestly I am at a loss for words that don’t involve swearing.  This Tuesday, April 19, 2016 is the primary for New York. This will determine who will be the Democratic Presidential Candidate who will run in the general election in November. It is one of the biggest moments in the current political environment.  During my thirty-four years on this earth I have lived multiple lives. I seem to always have a story to share based on whatever I want to write about. This is something that I didn’t necessarily realize but as the pattern continues it is gett...

“Fatherless girls think many things possible and nothing is safe.” -Mary Catherine Gordon The same of course can be true for boys who lose their fathers way too soon. Such was conveyed by Anderson Cooper on Charlie Rose’s PBS program this week. I thought it was a really powerful statement expressing just how much different this made the lives of all those now fatherless children. I know it originally read as “girls” not boys but I think the opposite actually rings more true. Thinking of all of those little boys who now had no one to use as an example of the kind of men they would grow up to be, especially if their fathers were extraordinary men. Anderson’s father, author Wyatt Cooper, fits right into that category. Wretchedly this is a feeling many can relate to, the first being his mother Gloria Vanderbilt. A book written by this mother and son, “The Rainbow Comes and Goes”, debuted last week and been placed on The New York Times Best Seller list. The book is a project...