caught on tape in a video piece for the art exhibit at the armory that steve participated in
karilyn doing the rickshaw charity ride in mumbai. we're visiting her in india in april. very excited to return to india!
dinner at a cute new argentinian restaurant in our neighborhood with paula, richard, matt and adam
we watched the inauguration with the girls at school
obama's inauguration day
obama's inauguration day
inauguration get together
inauguration get together
inauguration get together in our bed. chocolate liqueur celebration.
inauguration get together
inauguration get together
liane demonstrates the netty pot
inauguration get together
inauguration get together
winter melting
bubble champaign room for adam's birthday
adam's birthday dinner
we went to a great mexican place during winter restaurant week in NYC
adam's birthday
later we walked through soho for his surprise visit to the dream house --an apartment with seriously heavy drones where you can meditate.
dream house sound meditation house
walking back through soho
with liane and yasha to see the Champions of Dance at the Town Hall NYC. pretty incredible and funny.
the champions of dance indeed
Champions of Dance at the Town Hall NYC
portfolio week, where our girls present three "I Can" statements and deomonstrate
portfolio week with our girls
took the girls on their first bank trip
they get stipends for being part of our program
bank trip
adam's brother chris and his wife melanie visit new york. we took them to our favorite brazilian restaurant in the village.
our super awesome black history month wall we created for the gals
chinatown date
vegetarian dim sum. it was good.
chinatown old school arcade
chinatown date
i wait as adam gets up his confidence to challenge someone at streetfighter.
and he does...and i root for him like a teenage girlfriend but he lost
chinatown date
chinatown date
chinatown date
chinatown date
chinatown date
salma's birthday at caracas in the village
salma's birthday dinner at caracas in the village
our crazy trip to the spa castle in queens. basically an enormous place filled with saunas and jacuzzis invented by koreans.
you wear uniforms and you have a super high tech watch that lets you pay for things. it was amazing!! i look like a dork.
from the spa castle website....this was the lady locker room area where you can bath nude in different types of jacuzzis, saunas and steam rooms.
in korean, it's called a jimjilbang. maybe in my blood to love it...
this was kind of the mother of all jimjilbangs
spa disneyland basically. here there was an extensive variety of saunas.
one of the things i love most about new york...the subway performers...these guys were really great jazz musicians
valentine's day: adam hunted down a replacement for my korean slippers after visiting korean groceries all over nyc! thank you!
we went to see Paul Simon reopen the Beacon Theater uptown. there were some red carpet guests as well like jimmy fallon.
paul simon at the beacon theater
garfunkel made a surprise appearance at the very end. i shed some tears. they're old timers and still great!
paul simon at the beacon theater valentine's day
paul simon at the beacon theater
this is a bad photo of mayor bloomberg. in our first three nyc years, we have been to two events with the mayor. pretty funny.
paul simon at the beacon theater
adam's sadness that we missed the train
i love receiving photo texts from friends who pose with listography books at a random shop. the sweetest! thanks cynthia!
we brought in urban word nyc spoken word poets to recite their poems for our gals
urban word nyc poets
i love my job
joe demonstrates the wheelbarrow technique with his ol pal biko after our dinner with joe & liane
adam's grandma anita passes away. we travel to michigan.
anita and her husband are an inspiration to us. anita was a wonderful woman and i'll remember her always.
anita and bill travelled all over the world. they were also teachers. i am so glad i knew her.
anita lived to be 86 years old. we'll miss her.
celebration of anita's life
celebration of anita's life
with grandpa wright
celebration of anita's life
the marks boys
marks brothers
with grandpa wright
we took grandpa wright to lunch the next day with adam's cousin heather and stephan
adam's dad and sue hosted us --and sue made us some incredible dinners while we visited
we also challenged them at scarbble and rummikub each night
rummikub challenge
went through and found some old photos in jack's basement. here's aaron and adam, graduation day
adam with anita, bill, and jack
jack, adam and a smiling james
adam's mom and dad
adam looks so much like his mother. she passed away many years ago.
i think she would be (and possibly is) very proud of our adam. he is the nicest person i know.
adam in high school. lol
visiting with james
amelia challenges me to mexican bingo. 1 to 1 amelia...i shall return!
josh plays us some tunes
james and amelia
back at home and back to work :-)