Category Archives: New York
Sustainable TreeHouse
Tree houses are wonderful things. For a kid, a tree house is like your very own apartment, a child-sized space which you can retreat to and do whatever you like to do — read, tie knots, meditate — out of … Continue reading
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Australia Votes
In Australia, voting is compulsory, and voting day is an event. Everyone’s Saturday revolves around this obligation; you either like to vote early, or wait until the afternoon when the crowds die down (being careful not to cut it too … Continue reading
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Rousseau Reveries
Jean-Jacques Rousseau thought about a lot of things when he was walking around Paris in the 1700s observing plants, flowers, bees, gardens, and carefree children, not least of all his love/hate relationship with solitude and society and his theories on … Continue reading
Stand Clear Of The Closing Doors, Please
I’m not sure why, but I’ve always liked announcements. They’re dehumanized and routine, following a standard script, yet their mechanical and predictable rhythms somehow appeal to me. When I was nine and on vacation in the United States, the spiels … Continue reading
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Beginner’s Guide to New York
Sesame Street is a great guide to life in New York. There’s the skit where the muppets take the subway, which is, according to them, “the biggest travel bargain in town, the longest-running show underground.” Then there’s Fat Blue in … Continue reading
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At the laundromat
My local laundromat is a place I look forward to visiting. I find it kind of therapeutic, and I attribute this to a number of factors: the cozy temperature; the clean, fresh smell; the gentle hum of heavy-duty washers and … Continue reading
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