Filed under: Food, Fun, Photos, happy | Tags: Food, photographs, stuffed peppers
Filed under: Music, Photos, memories | Tags: All The Same, Music, photographs, Sick Puppies
I don’t mind where you come from
As long as you come to me
But I don’t like illusions I can’t see
Them clearly
I don’t care, no I wouldn’t dare
To fix the twist in you
You’ve shown me eventually what you’ll do
I don’t mind
I don’t care
As long as you’re here
Go ahead and tell me you’ll leave again
You’ll just come back running
Holding your scarred heart in hand
It’s all the same
And I’ll take you for who you are
If you take me for everything
And do it all over again
It’s all the same
Hours slide and days go by
Till you decide to come
But in-between it always seems too long
Suddenly
But I have the skill, yeah
I have the will, to breath you in while I can
However long you stay is all that I am
I don’t mind, I don’t care
As long as you’re here
Go ahead and tell me you’ll leave again
You’ll just come back running
Holding your scarred heart in hand
It’s all the same
And I’ll take you for who you are
If you take me for everything
And do it all over again
It’s always the same
Wrong or Right
Black or White
If I close my eyes
It’s all the same
In my life
The compromise
I’ll close my eyes
It’s all the same
Go ahead say it
You’re leaving
You’ll just come back running
Holding your scarred heart in hand
It’s all the same
And I’ll take you for who you are now
If you take me for everything
Do it all over again
It’s all the same
Filed under: Art, Family, memories | Tags: Art, contest, Family, moma, NYC, photographs, The Museum of Modern Art, Vacation
(written 11-13-08)
My sister has got to be the best traveling host in the entire world. On my third day in NY Mike had to go visit his parents in NH for a few days and my sister and I were left to our devices. And she was so obliging; our first stop in Tara’s Tour of NY Art Museums: The MOMA (The Museum of Modern Art).
Holy Picasso! I cannot really describe how much it meant to me to be there, to witness those things that I only saw in books growing up thinking that I was so far away from that world. And here they were before me. Sometimes I get the question, “Do you regret not using your degree?” It’s one of those rhetorical things I let roll off my back now, I don’t take offense to it and why should I? No, I don’t regret it because art lives inside of me, it runs through my blood. Art isn’t an action for me, it’s a reaction to everything in my world and beyond.
When I woke up that morning I wasn’t thinking, “Hhhmmm, I should dress to coordinate with Warhol’s soup cans.” Really, I didn’t…?
Another Warhol
My favorite artist of all time, Robert Rauschenberg, who just passed away this past May. Believe me this was an existential experience, like seeing the Holy Grail:
A little Pollock: Masterpiece or mess, you decide?
And, yes, this one did have cigarette butts and keys and such embedded in the paint. You know, I try to do my art drunk and it definitely won’t be hanging in any museum.
AND NOW FOR A LITTLE ART FUN…
NAME EACH ARTIST BY THEIR WORK:
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Hey, get the most right or all of them right and I think a little sadieandleo prize package is in order!
I’ll leave it up for a while and see if anyone is up for it.
*CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED, THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO PARTICIPATED, SEE POST FROM 11-15-08 TO SEE WHO WON!
Filed under: Vacation, memories | Tags: american museum of natural history, central park, memories, new york city, photographs, stage deli, Vacation
Mike and I visited The American Museum of Natural History, and no, Ben Stiller does not work there, but it still rocks!
I recommend getting to museums as they are opening. You get the run of the place.
Probably the most photographed feature of the museum now, “Dumb Dumb give me Gum Gum”. Why aren’t we smiling? Because the very friendly tourist who offered to take our picture couldn’t figure out how to use our camera. There are a few I’ve deleted of our feet, over exposed, under exposed and this is the best of the lot.
But she did her best:
Out of all of the amazing things they had on display here, and even at Mike’s dismay that “these are real animals… stuffed animals… that’s not right!”, my favorite animal on this planet is still the manatee.
After the museum, my sister and brother-in-law took us into the city for the best damn sandwich I think I’ve ever had at a place called Stage Deli. I’m pretty sure this place will be in my version of heaven.
Oh, and we had a piece of cheesecake that was bigger than my head. Check.
They then walked us through Central Park and it is as romantic and as wonderful as you have heard. We even stole a kiss on one of its many historic bridges… yeah, we’re love nerds.
Filed under: Vacation, memories | Tags: Empire State building, memories, NYC, photographs, Times Square, Vacation
Here it is a little reminiscing of my outstanding and wonderful recent vacation in New York City, I wish I was still there…
On our first day, Mike and I did the NY tourist thing and visited Times Square and the Empire State building.
I was overwhelmed and underwhelmed at the same time. I’m sure our Dad brought us here when we were kids but I don’t remember it. For some reason all I remember from that trip was Trump tower and my Dad acting like a kid on the escalators.
So there are a lot of people (tourists) here and its like an outdoor mall. I’m not saying it isn’t cool or wasn’t cool to be there, but it’s a little like going to Hollywood, CA for the first time, at the end of it you kind of scratch your head and wonder, “Was that it?”
You are immediately reminded of how small you are in NYC. The moment we got into the cab and started whizzing around the city you can feel how everything is so packed in. It’s an awesome feeling, how the city is busting it is being pushed upwards.
Going up the Empire State building was surprisingly fun! It is such a production nowadays and I know I sound like “in-my-day”, but in my day you just went in and went up and I think there was a little admission but it’s so different now. I think my favorite thing about this time were the 100s of Japanese kids apparently here on a school field trip.
It was rainy that day and wicked windy at the top, as I am sure it always is. But seriously, some of those kids almost blew away. I love the feeling of looking down and thinking that we’re some Godzilla type creatures and we could just stomp on all of those little buildings. I’m such a kid.
How cute are we? You have no idea how cold we are! Burrrrr… but having a blast!
Later on that night we walked to a couple of bars in my sister’s neighborhood (btw, everything is in my sister’s neighborhood, to me at least!). I got hit on by token creepy guy and we had so much fun watching the patrons, my they haven’t changed. I fell asleep very quickly that night.
Filed under: Work, holidays | Tags: costume, halloween, photographs, Ricky, shopping, Target, Work
September 23rd, 2008
Historically working for a manager who has enough kids to start her own basketball team I have never ever had a Halloween night off. This year is different, I work with a bunch of whippersnappers and gracious ones at that, and Emily (just about the nicest person on this planet) offered to close that night, so I will be able to partake in some kind of sugary festivities. I’m looking forward to it, now of course the conundrum is having to think up a costume. But maybe I don’t have to… I received this text tonight from Ricky and it is just about the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time. Not only did he get into this costume in the aisle of Target but he had the presence of mind to have his shopping companion snap a picture, because, and I quote: “I saw it and said TARA!!!”
I mean, how great IS that!?!
Filed under: Emotions, Family, Introduction, Living | Tags: 1975, 1978, 1979, 1988, 1993, 1994, 1997, 2000, memories, photographs, pictures
May 17th, 2008
A while back when I was blogging on The Space I got it in me one night to share a bunch of old photographs of me through the years. I got it in me again, so here you go:
Me, as a baby… I think this is when my affinity for napping started.
Look, I’m vintage:
Me and Amy playing in the snow. Those were the greatest days.
Eighth grade beach day. I’m standing there in my bathingsuit and that’s Walter M. I ran into him around ‘98 in Portsmouth and damn did he look good. What ifs. I just didn’t have the gumption to take it any further than, “How have you been for the past decade?” Must have been the bathing suit, would have done it in ‘88.
Senior year of high school, ‘93. Hair wasn’t natural and neither is that pose. Seriously.
First college dance, Halloween ‘93. I think I surprised some people.
A rare picture of me looking glamorous circa ‘94 or ‘95. Yes, I cropped that one. Don’t ask.
This, hands down, is my favorite photograph of all time and always will be.
Orleans, Vermont. 1994
College graduation, ‘97. I’m pretty sure I should be smiling.
Ah, that’s better. Me and Mike, so young, so thin and so… tanned.
Island Pond, Derry, NH, July 2000.
I hope you enjoyed that. Until I get it in me to do that again… ‘nite.
