Pocket-Sized Pleasantries: April 2025

lots of flowers, baseball, thrifting, and a Hudson Valley day trip

cleo stopping to smell the flowers.

• the coming and (already) going of tulips in the conservatory garden in central park

• being warm enough to buy a $4 soft serve with chocolate sprinkles from the Mister Softee truck

• a train ride to beacon to hit up the flea market, then closing out the day with wine and an amazing truffle caesar salad

out and about in beacon.

• the late afternoon beams of sunlight dancing in the living room

• pay day date nights with cody, this time at a dimly lit south african wine bar

• gab sessions at my monthly friend group dinner, usually accompanied by wine and restaurants I have no business dining at *in the best way

café chelsea and kaia wine bar.

• training for the brooklyn half and falling in love with running again

• thrifting in bushwick with my nyc little sis (and then again with my husband)

• the return of wisteria—beautiful, delicate, spreading like wildfire on the pergola in the italian conservatory garden

wisteria, hydrangeas, and my current vintage inventory.

• the weight of cleo napping beside me, feeling her tiny soft heart beats and the tides of her breath against my legs

• ending up in a private suite at the yankees game — the smell of hot dogs, beer, and fries wafting through the stadium

• having places to go, friends to see, and work to get done (maybe not so much the last one)

yankees game memorializing the realest.

and what i’m looking forward to in may:

• listing my entire vintage inventory (stay tuned…)

• separate weekend visits from a couple of friends and my mom

• eating a hot dog (or two) on the coney island boardwalk immediately after finishing the brooklyn half

• looking at more hudson valley apartments that we can hopefully soon call home