Stacy Horn

Not that this is the best example of it, but he never takes a bad photo.  Who can resist that cute cat head?? NO ONE.

So many people I know have new books out now!

I just saw that author Lily Burana’s new book, I Love a Man In Uniform, is out.  Buy it here!!

Lily used to be on Echo so we used to regularly have the pleasure of her writing, and I can tell you she is amazing.  She also wrote this incredibly moving op-ed about being married to a man in the military a couple of years back.  I wonder if I can find it, because it will give you a taste of how great this book is going to be … found it!!  

You can read it here.

The part where she says “the uniform that covered him when he was away” put a lump in my throat the first time I read it.

The cover makes the book look light, and Lily does have a wicked sense of humor, but I also know that the book will have depth and poignancy.  She is seriously frank AND smart AND has insight and I just know this book will be completely original, nothing like you’ve ever read or imagined. Everyone always says that, right? “Completely original.”  But I swear it will be true!

Congratulations, Lily!!

I just want to be a slug today.  Can’t I be a slug today?  I think I need to be a slug today.

I took this the other day walking home.  I liked the shade of blue in the sign.  But in the photograph, visually, I like the small snippet of the American flag in the corner.

While I was up at the Morris-Jumel Mansion I met this fabulous couple who own a building diagonally across the street from the mansion.  He, Kurt Thometz, runs a bookstore in their building, Jumel Terrace Books, and she, Camilla Huey, is a costume designer who is also researching Eliza Jumel (best not-yet-really-told story out there). Among the many things they turned me onto that after was Parlor Entertainment.

Every Sunday afternoon at 4pm, 555 Edgecombe Avenue, Apt. 3F, you can hear jazz for free (donations accepted). I went and had the one of the best afternoons EVER. There’s a lot of videos of them on YouTube, most are better than my out of focus effort. But it’s mine. The music was just amazing and this is only a taste. That woman at the end of my video sang a song so hauntingly beautiful I didn’t film it because I didn’t want to be distracted for a single second.

I got to the NPR studio early yesterday, so I relaxed for a few minutes in the park behind the main branch of the New York Public Library.  It was just so ridiculously pleasant I think I smiled the whole time, thereby signaling “crazy person” to all around me.  Crazy person with a camera no less.  But I was happy to be going to NPR to record a commentary, it was a nice day, all was well with the world for a few minutes.  I mean, will you look at that tiny field of daffodils!!