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Told myself we’d quit the bed habit when we left the countryside 😳

Celebrating @derekblasberg @sarahandelman brilliant book “Fast and Louche”

ASAP Rocky for Ray Ban is where it’s at

My grandsons

@christopher_astley BRILLIANT new show at @ninomiergallery

Date night @raoulsrestaurantnyc

Making new friends

Found my beloved long lost friend @littlenellcampbell at @hugoguinness beautiful show

Cats and books 🙌🏼 @justanidea @pillowcatbooks

Weirdo

Most Friday evenings you’ll find me here @mastbooks

Fallen in love with Tompkins

@toryburch @kingsleap beautiful show

Love the weirdness of this city

Kisses

My babies

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My Mama G @mamagena buy her brilliant book “On Our Knees”

First stop always at our local @lovelydayny

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And special thanks to Fabiola for hosting a little 🍕 party for Derek!

Photos by @abigailwornock @saywho except first and last one by @philipandelman

Table by @mize.dining
Cocktails by @belvederevodka @laforcenyc

#JUSTANIDEABOOKS

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Yesterday was a Fantastic Interesting day ! #iloveNyc #lifeisBeautiful @fabbb_s @tomsachs @sabyasachiofficial #gorgeousdinnerfordereck #greatfriends

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Thank you @pillowcatbooks for hosting Tim Klein @puzzle_montage book signing and thank you @alexander.white for the yummy @eatcops donuts and @lepuzzpuzzles for keeping us busy on a rainy Sunday morning ☔️ 🧩 🍩
Pics by @philipandelman
#JUSTANIDEABOOKS Tim Klein book is available from Pillow-Cat books on 9th street and online (signed copies!) and from JUSTANIDEA.com

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25 years later what I remember the most from that day was the paralysing, irrational fear that if the second tower fell sideways it might crush us. It seems crazy now as we were twenty blocks north of the towers, but I was three months postpartum and my protective instincts towards newborn Coco were exaggerated. My whole perception of reality changed that morning, and suddenly anything scary seemed possible. I also remember sitting with Christopher outside our local coffee shop on Hudson Street watching people walk towards home from Ground Zero after both towers fell. They looked like zombies - covered in ash, torn clothes, blank faces, clearly in shock. I still think of those people regularly - who they were, what they had seen, how far they had to walk to get home, many of them limping or bleeding. Despite the horrifying images in front of us, it seemed our whole neighbourhood felt better being out in public. The weight of what we’d all seen that day, with our own eyes, was too much to process in the solitude of our own apartments. We needed to see the expressions on other people’s faces to understand how we were feeling, and to know that what happened, which seemed so unbelievable, was actually real.

Ten years later I went to the @911memorial and cried my eyes out. What has stayed with me was hearing the voice messages on the answering machine of one of the passengers of flight 93 - friends just checking he wasn’t on the plane, then family worrying he might have been on the plane, then others just wanting to hear his voice on the greeting, and finally the last bits of hope that he might have escaped his obvious fate. It broke my heart, but it was also healing to be able to finally detach from my own experience of that day and really know what happened to the victims, especially my college friend Ray Rocha. I can still hear his laugh.

I will always remember, I will #neverforget

Photo by @christopherbrooks101

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Adirondacks antics

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Amanda’s Adirondacks 🛶🛶🛶 Thank you & Christopher for the adventures 🦌

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Pasturized

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Home is where the heart is ♥️

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All the memories 🐚 Christopher and I first went to Harbour Island 17 years ago, when I took him on a surprise trip there for his 50th birthday. The old Florida vibes - sea grape trees, manatees, stone crabs, sand dollars - reminded me of my childhood and have compelled me to go back again and again, having great times there with children, friends and parents. As life seems to unfold in chapters for us, the last few years had led us elsewhere. So for our 25th anniversary Christopher surprised me with 4 days of nostalgic beach walks, reading whole books in a day, conch salad and, duh, more stone crabs. @christopherbrooks101 I had the best time with you.

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Happy 25th Anniversary to the blueprints. Love you the most. You two really set the bar high
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M is for Mota in Mexico City! #greatfirtsday #amazingdinner #maximorestaurant

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