August 26
I moved to New York City five years ago today.
It was an easier transition than I'd imagined. I had lived in another large international city with a subway for a year as a kid, which helped. But it was really Elizabeth who made the settling in here such a relaxed and welcoming time, finding me a drawing table, making room for me in an apartment that was really too small already. Our favorite places in the city together were established in those first weeks and months here and those places have become a part of me.
A few years ago I was taking a week off and someone asked me where I was going on vacation. I said, "Are you kidding? Nowhere. I'm from Oregon. New York City is where I would go and I live here now."