by Eileen | May 11, 2011 | Uncategorized
On Monday night while many of you were snug in front of your televisions, your computers, your latest issue of whatever magazine you can get there and I can’t get here, I was listening to the sound of shoe soles slapping the ground on the tiny side street of...
by Eileen | May 6, 2011 | Uncategorized
Although I like to think of myself as in may ways invincible, I will now reveal to you the sad story of what happened to me this week. I got a rhinovirus. That’s right, a rhinovirus. I would have preferred any manner of hippovirus, (though not an armadillo virus...
by Eileen | Apr 27, 2011 | Uncategorized
There are two foods that, despite the fact that they are not originally from Brooklyn, on which we Brooklynites (or ex-Brooklynites) consider ouselves to be experts. And they are pizza and bagels (but not pizza bagels, perish the thought!). There are also eggcreams,...
by Eileen | Apr 10, 2011 | Uncategorized
Of all the things to be concerned about concerning changing apartments (will my stuff arrive? will it fit? will the internet ever be hooked up, is there a secret infestation of curly-antennae’d bugs? yes, yes, yes no), my mother was concerned about whether or...
by Eileen | Mar 10, 2011 | Uncategorized
Ever the doubting Thomas (or Eileen, as the case may be), I was sure that the “traditional” snack on my La Bicicleta Verde tour was going to be an alfajor, a sweet, soft sandwich cookie filled with manjar (dulce de leche). They’re packaged, widely...
