I love solving puzzles, I love finding my way around obstacles, and I love learning new things about technology.
In the end, my pursuit of the elusive New York State driver's license became about much more than a divorced woman's learning to drive for the first time.
When I was a teenager, if you'd asked me, I would have said I was in a relationship with New York City. It was my first real love.
Tower Records was a place to meet your friends, your co-workers or a place to meet new friends who shared a common love of music, literature and all things cultural.
The pros really like all the new people playing poker because they love the dead money; but when the money wins they don't like that very much at all.
I would love to spend a year living in New York; I've wanted to do that since I was 18. I'll be really disappointed if I'm 50 and haven't done something like that.
New York is so serious about the creation of work. Everything is happening so fast, it feels like there's another studio, another session on every block, and I love that.
I am sort of an adventurer. I like to explore new places. I don't get to travel as often as I would like but I love it.
I went to New York and Miami and hung out by the beach, and I love the American boys, so I wrote a song about it.
It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.
But I love New York. I used to set my alarm clock when I was there, and get up at 4am and get a coffee, just because I could.
I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story in New Orleans.
New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself.
I'm an adaptable nomad. I love Paris, I've been living in Los Angeles and New York since 1990. I love London, too. My roots are inside of me.
I love the fact that I get something new to do almost every day and have new challenges.
I love Shillington not as one loves Capri or New York, because they are special, but as one loves one's own body and consciousness, because they are synonymous with being.
Times of transition are strenuous, but I love them. They are an opportunity to purge, rethink priorities, and be intentional about new habits. We can make our new normal any way we want.
My new iPhone, I'm obsessed. My iPod. I love all the Mac crap. AppleTV, I'm crazy about that. I'd rather buy a new gadget than, like, a purse.
I love New York. It just reminds me of so many movies... I look up at buildings, and feel like Godzilla should be climbing up them or something.
Embrace each day with a warm heart and a big smile, because every gift of a new day is truly a big blessing.
Why should you live in the past when the present already has everything that you need to start a new beginning?
