finally saw madonna in concert after all these years!!

laura came from DC and we had some margaritas before the show

salma and laura

at madonna's show at madison square gardens

Madonna Sticky+Sweet Tour

the stock market crashes

my bloody valentine show with matt, richard, salma and adam

my bloody valentine

september: sewing class month

september: sewing class month

september: sewing class month

september: sewing class month

our 11 year anniversary night

sushi dinner

echo and the bunnymen performed the ocean rain album at radio city music hall with an orchestra

radio city music hall on our anniversary

lisa

adam

latin root words treasure hunt with my girls in downtown brooklyn

latin root words treasure hunt. richard joins us.

latin root words treasure hunt

downtown brooklyn treasure hunt near city hall and the farmers market

latin root words treasure hunt

september: sewing class

september: sewing class

september: sewing class

watching the 2008 vice presidential debates

visiting my kids and the staff at my old school work site

LES Teens

LES Teens

staff reunion and dinner. very sweet. i miss them!

i received an award for my service :-)

staff reunion and dinner

i met Ming in the subway. he creates small origami cut outs of people

he is a very sweet man and i felt as though i was in the presence of someone very good and honest

he did one of me and i sat and hung out with him for a bit. i hope he is well!

adam and biko working on projects

adam and biko working on projects

september: sewing class

september: sewing class

september: sewing class

laura from DC and maxine visit

walk down to the east river

me and lila

adam and lila

laura and lila

movies and knishes with steve

movies and knishes with steve

movies and knishes with steve

breakfast at five leaves: heath ledgers' restaurant in our neighborhood. it's very nice inside and great food.

obama wishes

lykke li show at williamsburg hall of music

pizza stop on our way home

after show foosball tournament at royal oak bar

after show foosball tournament at royal oak bar

after show foosball tournament at royal oak bar

went to see the comic mike birbiglia's one man play at the bleeker street theater with steve and cynthia

this is steve in 1914

career day for my girls. i enlisted adam, liane and myself to talk to our girls about their careers

pics are from a friend's blackberry so quite blurry

adam did a great job of talking about computers versus bananas

liane wowed the girls with her cool music job

career day

jennifer's gaia received my kid's listography and sent me some photos...thanks guys!!

gaia filling out her listography

james sent us an amelia pic of her in her cool halloween costume

for richard's birthday we went to new york's haunted house. it was fun but not as scary as last year.

we gave richard a man bag for his birthday

art show we found on our walk home

richard's birthday dinner at "supper" in the east village

richard's birthday dinner at "supper" in the east village

richard's birthday dinner at "supper" in the east village

richard's birthday dinner at "supper" in the east village

richard's birthday dinner at "supper" in the east village

richard's birthday dinner at "supper" in the east village

richard's birthday dinner at "supper" in the east village

mine and adam's jobs on coffee cups

election night 2008!

we made our own homemade pizzas

election night 2008

discussing politics

pizza making

discussing how obama is going to kick butt

also played a round of charades while waiting for him to win

charades champ: adam

also watched the daily show while waiting anxiously

my crushes

Barack Obama WINS and renews my hope for the future! hooray for 2008!

took our girls for a private film screening of "what's the point honey" a documentary about women and politics. they loved it and we had a great talk

party for john at matt & salma's

party for john at matt & salma's

party for john at matt & salma's

party for john at matt & salma's

party for john at matt & salma's

steve and the yes men orchestrated a fake new york times newspaper w/ fake stories we want realized in 2009. i helped out w/organizing.

steve and the paper at the night pre-launch meeting

with cynthia in union square

cynthia and richard

next day, loading up bags/volunteers and getting those papers out there! people had really funny responses when you gave them the paper.

looking organized with steve

there were lots of documentarians. later that day, the press was all over the story. very exciting.

richard heading out to pass out some papers

paper reader. it took some people a few minutes to realize it was a fake and others knew instantly.

we had a lot of fun and the energy was amazing! hopefully some of those stories will come true. the papers were selling on Ebay for mucho bucks.

short Bay Area Visit. first stop, marc's studio

thank you for the wonderful lunch marc!

next stop, justin's studio...where we worked on his new album for a few days. i am writing lyrics and a few vocal melodies and it's been fun.

drinks and dinner with sonya, scott, justin, adam and julie.

drinks and dinner date

drinks and dinner date

drinks and dinner date

drinks and dinner date

stop at sarah's vintage shop --looks beautiful

stayed with chris and eric at their lovely new home in piedmont

justin and eric

oddly warm weather, we headed for barney's burger's patio for dinner

look shocked was the assignment

fox theater coming along in downtown oakland

went to see the "death of the party" boys and also see scott guest drum at the uptown bar in oakland

mile high club mini-reunion: alex, dave and garo

scott guest drumming

mile high club mini-reunion: alex, dave and garo

visited sue and kevin's new little guy: jack

he's a cute one

oakland had really great weather while we were there

dan and adrienne hosted a nice brunch for us while we were there! thank you guys!

east bay brunch with friends

east bay brunch with friends

east bay brunch with friends

east bay brunch with friends

east bay brunch with friends

east bay brunch with friends

east bay brunch with friends

east bay brunch with friends

east bay brunch with friends

east bay brunch with friends

east bay brunch with friends

east bay brunch with friends

east bay brunch with friends

east bay brunch with friends

east bay brunch with friends

east bay brunch with friends

east bay brunch with friends

east bay brunch with friends

east bay brunch with friends

east bay brunch with friends

east bay brunch with friends

east bay brunch with friends

justin sneaks into the asian girl photo

house tour with eric

their enormous backyard someday to be a small state park

at chris and eric's

at chris and eric's

korean dinner: the food of my people

korean dinner: the food of my people

korean dinner: the food of my people

such a quick short trip. wish we had more time but alas. see you next time!

really great to see everyone. come to new york soon! hope many wonderful things come your way always...