I struggle to finish things. A few examples: four unfinished books with bookmarks in them I finally returned to the bookshelf after sitting on my bedside table for months. Multiple unfinished bags of snacks in the pantry, unopened in weeks. Or months (yikes!). Mosaics hanging above my sink: four finished, the fifth hanging without grout for two years now. Several blog posts, half-written, or even three-quarters done, still yet unfinished, floating in the unpublished abyss of my blog dashboard.

So, I decided to tackle something easier than finishing things I've started. I'll just post a few pictures to get things moving. Pictures are easy--no thoughts that require completing. So here you go:

New York with Mom and Brooke

 Top of the Rock: In lieu of waiting hours in line to ascend the Empire State building, we took a recommendation to try the Rockefeller Center instead, which turned out to be a phenomenal suggestion! Short lines and clear plexiglass instead iron bars made it very worth it. And on the way up, we enjoyed an elevator ride with other tourists from every officially English-speaking country in the world. Except Belize. I think.

 We did some art-museum visiting. I think I wore Mom and Brooke out--I could probably wander around art museums forever. I feel pretty lucky--in the last few months, between Rome, London and New York I've gotten to see an amazing amount of art spanning genres and centuries.

 We tried two famous cupcakeries, and though Magnolia may be the original, Crumb's was the most original, not to mention the best. No standard cupcakes here! Neither in flavor or in size! As you can see, two cupcakes--peanut butter cup, filled with peanut butter icing, and half and half, topped with brownie and cookie bits--between the three of us nearly did us in.

Brooke and I in Times Square, on our way to Mesa Grill (Bobby Flay's restaurant). Extremely delicious!