Category: Alison projects
Yesterday, I pelted both citizens and visitors to New Orleans with vast quantities of plastic shiny beads, stuffed plush arrows, light up dinosaurs, glowing bracelets, and what I think …
I’ve been following the tragic story of Sarai Sierra, a 33 year old New Yorker, who’d caught notice with her photographs on Instagram, traveled to Istanbul to take photos, …
Allow me to offer a translation of sentiment. This was how you expressed an opinion on a nationality 75 years ago: Not all Mexicans are picturesque Indians in big …
The light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off in Kelly, New Mexico. It’s now a bonafide ghost town. I was wearing flip flops when I …
My phone rang, awakening me from a fitful dream in which I was seated next to Jennifer Lopez at a dinner party and she was angry that I didn’t …
Can you say hello to the new without saying a proper goodbye to the old first? It seems like a good question to ask on January 1st — a …
“There was an…incident…in the steam room.” So said the all black clad, very toned lady who works at my oh-so-fancy gym in Manhattan. She was stopping me from re-entering …
When I said I was bored by Old Faithful the other day, I didn’t mean to imply that I found Yellowstone National Park a snooze. In fact, what I …
I write this from Greenwich Village, as Hurricane Sandy (or Blizzard, or Nor’easter or Frankenstorm or whatever) rapidly approaches. What you’re seeing is a photo taken from …
Other worlds are very much on my mind when I visit New Mexico, given its role in space history and space present. After all, it was here that space-faring …
A last minute, two night trip to Bermuda. What could possibly go wrong? Two nights before trip: Stay up way too late, talking about entirely inappropriate things on the …
Of course, on my first trip to Yellowstone National Park, I wanted to see Old Faithful. This very predictable geyser is one of the park’s major attractions, and so …