Earlier this week I posted about my exciting time at the Martha Stewart Omnimedia office. It was so exciting and an honor. It was everything I hoped it to be and more. But now I want to switch gears and share with you about the rest of my time in New York City.
Once I booked my plane ticket to NYC, I didn’t have to wait very long for the rest of my schedule on the East coast to be packed with appointments, meetings, and connecting with friends – both old and new. Social media is changing the way people communicate and Twitter is a predominant gateway to building instant community. Immediately after announcing via Twitter I was heading to New York City, friends Erika of Ivory Hut and Maggy of Three Many Cooks invited me to be the keynote speaker at an all-day food blogging workshop in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. More on this in a future post.
I flew in Thursday morning on the red-eye flight from Seattle and my wonderful friend, Jennie Perillo of In Jennie’s Kitchen picked me up at JFK at 7:30am. That’s love. She dropped me off at our other friend’s apartment, Olga of Sassy Radish, where I stayed throughout the weekend. Olga is very generous and the type of friend who insists you stay with her even though she herself wouldn’t be there. She even stocked her freezer with homemade mango sorbet for me to enjoy as a guest in her beautiful home. That’s love.
I took a 1.5 hr nap and was out the door for a series of working lunch dates and meetings before finishing the day off at Martha Stewart’s offices. It felt so surreal to be meeting new colleagues and bosses I will be working with this year for the first time. [click to continue…]
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