This time a decade ago I was sitting in a café on the
upper west side of NYC, supping on coffee and cake with my new American
friends, the adrenalin and excitement at having moved to the Big Apple keeping
me warm in a city that was to become my home for the next 7 years and
celebrating my 23rd birthday.
A decade ago.
Comparatively, this morning began at 3am with my
nearly one-year-old daughter practicing her break-dance moves, which saw me
leave the marital bed for the second time that week and move to the couch where
I watched the dawn creep slowly in.
Where once I was taking 8 dance classes a week, buying
‘standing room only’ tickets to Broadway shows, drinking cheap wine at late
night bars on the lower east side and living on Ketchup soup, I now get incidental
exercise walking my daughter to the park, see a play at the STC and stress the
whole time about my bottle-boycotting daughter, get drunk on a sniff of
champagne and am never without food in my mouth.
Life is long my friends.
And life is good.
Very good.
Here’s to another fabulous decade.
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