Do YOU have Great Things to Do Today?

If there's anything one learns in a post-9/11 New York, its that life is too short not to have great things to do EVERY DAY. Keep your dance card full, friends, you never know when the music is going to stop.

XXOO,
Melissa

Will This Be Me?

"Why leaving New York should be sadder than leaving any other city, I don't know. Some people who visit or who live here leave New York believing they never made the most of it, and a visitor is usually inclined to think the same. Unless you were miserable in New York, regret at how little you did or saw is a part of departure. I once heard a British professor say that New York was an old lover and that he hated the next farewell so strongly that he preferred not to visit again. He said this with genuine feeling."

--From "Bohemian New York" by Inigo Thomas

Cheat on New York

Delta has launched an ad campaign called Cheat on New York.

These ads are everywhere, and I have to say... New York, I will never cheat on you, but unfortunately, I *am* breaking up with you. You're just too high-maintenance, and despite your wily charms (you are quite lovely in the Springtime,) I'm leaving you for good this time. Nothing personal.

XXOO,
Me

Well, What Is All This About?

I'm using a blog to solicit ideas for those must-do things that I ought to accomplish prior to my departure from NYC later this summer. I'm looking forward to my new life in California, but I don't want to have any regrets about things I always wanted to get around to during my twelve years here, but never did.

..not to mention all the stuff it never even occurred to me to do.

That's where you come in. Leave me comments with any suggestions you may have regarding things you feel I simply must do before leaving NYC behind for good. I'm looking for those unique experiences that one can't have anywhere else.

I'll be posting my own "to-do" list, and hopefully documenting each adventure with stories and pictures right here on this blog.

Thanks! --M.