Happy spring! (Taken with instagram)
“Paris, I Love You is composed of loose vignettes, related largely to Baldwin’s position at an ad agency, a job I’m not sure how he landed considering he had no experience in advertising and certainly a less-than-ideal understanding of French. But Baldwin’s lack of preparation is what makes the book so much fun.” — April Book Recommendations: Paris, Pastors, and Punishment - Hollywood Prospectus Blog - Grantland (via rosecransbaldwin)
Excited to read this!
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Just leaving the metropolitan opera in NYC. My Dad treated me to orchestra seats at Aida. The march in the 2nd act brought tears to my eyes as 5 horses and 250 chorus members took the stage on an ancient Egyptian set. Incredible.
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“This is a picture of me and Miss McIntyre. The blue is water and the brown is a boat. Miss McIntyre’s head is a heart. Why? Because Miss McIntyre is nice.” — One of the many cards I got from my 21 kindergarten students on my last day of student teaching.
GPOW - I finished the New York City Marathon edition. Wish this picture was of me in my mylar cape right after I finished the marathon, but I’m still waiting on Brightroom to send me pictures. For now, this will have to do.
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Elizabeth is running the NYC Marathon Sunday Morning -
It was more than fantastic, it was completely surreal. Still can’t believe I did this. Somebody pinch me.
Thank you for the marathon love & encouragement. It helped immensely.
There are people who spend their lives in New York and never hit all five boroughs (Note: I think they’re jerks. But it’s not hard/uncommon for it to happen.). Emac is running 26 miles through all of them. Over awesome bridges, along a lot of pavement, into and through beautiful Central Park.
Sounds fantastic.
Watch for her.
Hello soon to be NYC Marathon Finishers!
I’m sure some – ok ALL of you have begun your initial phase of FREAKING out. It’s completely normal. Just trust in the training you have done this season. You’ve trained through the 100 degree heat waves and an occasional hurricane and Earthquake. You already covered hundreds of miles in your training. What’s another 26.2? While some of you may be concerned that you may have been behind on training, whether it is the case or not, now is not the time to try and catch up. The only thing you can do by running more than the calendars tell you beginning today is greatly increase your chance of injury and/or make yourself tired and in less than perfect condition to take on the challenge. Maybe now is the time to practice some meditation techniques so you are less nervous on November 5th and 6th. Picture yourself feeling fresh and with infinite energy, but calmly waiting on the Verrazano Bridge. The gun goes off and you LET every other runner who chooses to do so to run past you, because you are going to run this entire race smart and the right way. You’ll see all those people as you pass them on your way to the finish. Picture just running easy and effortlessly. Think about how big the crowds will be, how much noise will emanate from YOUR millions of fans and the bands playing ROCKY and other songs just for you. Smile back at them with a distinguished look that you know exactly what you are doing and will continue to run the right way. Through Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, and the Bronx. Finally, back in Manhattan you’ll come to that familiar place of Central Park. Let the memories of your first time doing a 4-mile, 5-mile, and full 6-mile loop come into site but feel how much better it feels this time, months and months after it all began. You exit the park for a quick period and see an enormous tv screen with YOU on it as you head back into the park at Columbus circle to finish the adventure (or is it just the beginning – the person who finishes the marathon is not the same person as the one that started). As you run up that final little hill before the finish on Tavern on the Green, some of you may begin to tear up, but all of you will have a smile on your face.