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Cross Animals

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You arrive at a deserted island. It's just you and a tent, with no civilization in sight. The only other things on it are some trees, weeds, bugs. There are rivers you can't cross and cliffs you can't climb. But think positive, it's your chance at a new life! ... says Tom Nook, a chubby racoon with a business plan, and a guinea pig (that's you) for a customer. You are tossed out of your office with less than a week to prepare. The same goes for your children, whose school doors are shut, then locked, then bolted. You all arrive, things in hand, at a new frontier, one you've known all along. It's your house, only now it becomes your own new deserted island, where you are imprisoned 24/7 for the unforseeable future. Welcome to the great social work from home experiment, where you and your whole state are guinea pigs. Slowly, friends trickle in - Phoebe, a bird, and Rory, a weight lifting lion. You make jokes about tent life and make plans to upgrade your s...
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What it means to be a New Yorker

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I never really had a grasp on this city, what it really meant IN ITS SOUL. I think it was 'Eat Pray Love' that offered the idea that every city has an identity that can be summed up in a word, and if that word doesn't work for you, you'd best be moving on. In Tokyo, I realized that that word was 'Correct'. Everything you do there had better be the 'correct' way of doing it, because that is the heart and soul of Tokyo. I had my yukata on and the bow was coming undone a bit, I had tied it wrong, and a lady there stopped me and retied it for me, and when it was tied and fixed, I realized it wasn't due to kindness but because it was incorrect, and she looked awfully glad to have righted that wrong. Here in New York, the first year I lived here I got overwhelmed and just couldn't get a sense of the city's soul, what makes it inimitable and quinticentially so. So many people, and so many *types* of people, are living here that every person might h...
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