Archives for 2006

I love travel. *Love* it. I love seeing new places, meeting new people, and seeing people that I already know and love. I love making the new place “mine” by finding out the closest place where I can buy agave nectar or a favorite toothpaste. I love walking down an unfamiliar street and soaking up [...]

Me and Noa! Originally uploaded by Bnita-Denise. I’m current in Jamaica Plain, MA for the week to hang out with my friend Jessica and to give her a hand with her baby, Noa, while her husband Marc is in Brazil doing research for his PhD. I just want to let everyone know that I am [...]

Party Time Originally uploaded by jbrotherlove. Before it gets too crazy with the comments, let me just post this photo and say that yes, by Sunday evening I was feeling a little bit better, okay?

I’m in Austin, Texas for the South by Southwest Interactive Conference, which I am sure is really wonderful, but I wouldn’t know, as I have not been to it yet. Who’da thunk that my lack of sleep for 3 days in a row two weekends ago would compromise my South by Southwest experience? Well, I [...]

I don’t know exactly how this works, but it is worth a try. I signed up with this site, completed an offer, and now all I need is 8 folks to click on this link and so the same. Some kind of referral market doo-hickey. Anyway, I am 8 people away from getting an Ipod [...]

Me and Jess (and baby!) Originally uploaded by Bnita-Denise. I just wanted to announce that Jessica and Marc just welcomed little Miss Noa Serena Gidal into the world this morning, 3/1/06 at 3:11am. Yay!!! Jessica said that she is beautiful and mellow. She had a quick, less than 6 hour labor that was more pressure [...]

“Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It is beyond me.” – Zora Neale Hurston

The first week here was a little hit and miss: Andy’s cousin Rebecca generously let me me stay at her house for the rest of the week, but she lives in Weston which is a suburb northwest of Miami and southwest of Ft. Lauderdale, so it took about 30 minutes or so to get anywhere [...]

Y’all — I made it! At about 9:30 pm, I pulled into the driveway of my friend Andy’s cousin Rebecca who lives in Weston, Florida. Andy comes in tomorrow at about 4pm, so Rebecca has generously offered to let me stay chez elle while Andy is in town so that we can all do stuff [...]

Well, I made it to Darien, Georgia, with the intentions of going over to Sapelo Island and taking a Geechee tour. “A what tour?” you may ask. Well, I got the idea from a movie that is one of my favorites from a visual standpoint, “Daughters of the Dust“, directed by Julie Dash. This movie [...]

Finally!! It was balmy driving from Pennsylvania to New York on Thursday — I think the temperature was at or near 60 degrees. It was beautiful and sunny — unseasonably warm, but very pleasant, given that is was the middle of January. Well, the party was over by Saturday: it started out raining for the [...]

I’ve been in Yellow Springs, Ohio since December 23rd, hanging with my mother, supposedly resting up, and reconnecting with friends in town. Did I mention that I *love* Yellow Springs, Ohio, the town where I grew up? In my opinion, it is a very wonderful, almost magical place. The people that this town has attracted [...]

Two quotes came my way today that epitomize where I am at right now: “Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation which is not nuturing to the whole woman.” – Maya Angelou And “You have to give up the life you have to get to the [...]

I have been asked this question so much, I felt it deserved its own post to tell the story. In December of 2002, six months after my father died unexpectedly in an airplane crash (see his memorial site for all of the details), I decided to take myself for a much-needed vacation. A real vacation [...]