[fusion_separator style_type="single solid" hide_on_mobile="small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility" class="" id="" sep_color="" top_margin="5px" bottom_margin="5px" border_size="" icon="" icon_circle="" icon_circle_color="" width="" alignment="center"][/fusion_separator] This is Part II in a three-part series.  Please click here for part I [fusion_separator style_type="single solid" hide_on_mobile="small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility" class="" id="" sep_color="" top_margin="5px" bottom_margin="5px" border_size="" icon="" icon_circle="" icon_circle_color="" width="" alignment="center"][/fusion_separator] Messages came in to me from all over the country on [...]

13 years ago, I had no idea how external events would change me and affect my life forever. Though I started out handling it the stoic way I learned to deal with crisis as a child, this event turned out to not be containable. No, I didn’t have a loved one that died in the towers, [...]

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I don’t often see New York, my city, at 4:30 in the morning- empty streets, towers of dark windows and the sparkling necklace round Manhattan when I look back over the East River as we zip across the 59th Street Bridge.  The bodegas are open in Queens and the “party palaces” beckon with flashing neon, [...]

After visiting Vienna last year for the first time, I have wanted to know more about the Secession Movement and Wiener Werkstätte that influenced so much of the art and architecture of Vienna around the 1900’s. Luckily for me, the Neue Galerie Museum has an exhibition of Koloman Moser: Designing Modern Vienna 1897-1907. There is [...]

I took these photos about 2 months ago. Every week I go for my voice lessons in this building on 9th Ave between 44th & 45th St and one day I realized that I just take the lobby for granted! So, I would like to bring this tiny accessible Art Deco gem to everyone's attention. [...]

[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent="yes" overflow="visible"][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type="1_1" background_position="left top" background_color="" border_size="" border_color="" border_style="solid" spacing="yes" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" padding="" margin_top="0px" margin_bottom="0px" class="" id="" animation_type="" animation_speed="0.3" animation_direction="left" hide_on_mobile="no" center_content="no" min_height="none"][raw] The combination of beautiful buildings and a couple of spectacular days weather wise in NYC refueled my inspiration. I went to a private showing for professionals to see the newly restored [...]

[fusion_separator style_type="single solid" hide_on_mobile="small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility" class="" id="" sep_color="" top_margin="5px" bottom_margin="5px" border_size="" icon="" icon_circle="" icon_circle_color="" width="" alignment="center"][/fusion_separator] This is Part III in a three-part series.  Please click here for part I [fusion_separator style_type="single solid" hide_on_mobile="small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility" class="" id="" sep_color="" top_margin="5px" bottom_margin="5px" border_size="" icon="" icon_circle="" icon_circle_color="" width="" alignment="center"][/fusion_separator] During my time there, the Embassy makes calls for me to [...]