A year ago, we were at what we thought was the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Jessica and I spent a relatively quiet night at home, playing games and watching movies before taking a lovely hike along the coast near Santa Cruz to usher in 2021. That night, that day…they were pleasant, but a bit sad. You see, for the […]
An Interruption: the worst day of the year.
NYC5: New York Goes Over the Top (Arts and Holidays)
New York is big. Shocking information, I know. This means there’s a lot of pretty much everything. One of the things that there’s clearly a lot of is museums, particularly art museums. We passed up visiting several dozen that we either wanted to go to or simply walked by on the street. On one of our architecture walking tours, I […]
NYC4: Underground, Out Loud, and on the Table
And…we’re back with more of my favorite bits of New York life. One of those is without a doubt the subway. I’ve always loved the New York subway–and public transit in general–since I’ve been a kid. For much of high school and college I wore a necklace with a NY subway token on it, and my college thesis was about […]
NYC3: From the Past into the Future
Everyday as we walked around New York we saw signs of construction. At one point we even debated the ratio of blocks that had scaffolding (to protect pedestrians from construction) to those that didn’t. At least on the major north-south avenues, I think we decided it was something like 1-to-1. Slightly less on residential streets, but the crosstown streets in […]
NYC2: It’s Been a Long Time Coming
So, if you didn’t notice, I failed to write anything for the past month or so. Jess and I continued to absolutely love our time in New York, but all of my “work” time (i.e. when Jessica was working and I was at home getting stuff done and not just enjoying life) ended up being dedicated to studying math. I […]