My website is now old enough to drink legally in the US.

To prevent needing to take medicines with not-great side effects for the rest of my life, I changed to a vegan diet when at home. I ponder what to call my vegan-if-I-can diet.

One of the travel rituals that Jonathan and I developed when visiting new cities together was to visit a new coffee shop each morning. We would look up places that had espresso drinks, walk to the shop, order drinks (he would have an espresso drink, I would have a tea), and have a lovely start to the day. We toured a lot of coffee shops. I would leave reviews on the coffee shops about their tea selection and how good the teas were. I would often try Jonathan's drink when he offered it to me, but continued to nope out of the coffee culture. I was the most-learned non-coffee-drinker espresso expert you could find.

I continued this ritual on my trip to NYC this week.

*pull*

*gentle toss*

December 6th has past. Life is considerably different now.

I am so delighted that my morning commute here in NYC is along a block with greenery. There are plant and flower shops next door and along the block, both sides, that pile plants and flowers outside along the sidewalk, narrowing the sidewalk for walkers, but SHOVING their faces into the greenery. This makes me so happy.