I’m a twentysomething writer and editor living out my dream one day • one picture • one avenue • one story at a time. This is where I overshare and constantly write tiny love letters to New York.Tumblr (3.0; @sarakatherine)http://sarakatherinerunnels.com/<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz5lm4PLRV1qz6eu6o1_500.png"/><br/><br/>We cooked this ourselves. I’m full and drunk just looking at it. <p>(Plus a gratuitous peek at the wild PJs mom sent for V-day.)</p>http://sarakatherinerunnels.com/post/17348156097http://sarakatherinerunnels.com/post/17348156097Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:10:00 -0500“[He] has a friend who once said that New York City takes all the basic facets of normal human existence away from you, and then sells them back to you one at a time as luxuries. Want a bathroom that fits more than one person at a time? That’ll cost ya. A bedroom door? Five hundred extra per month. Don’t even ask about closets; you don’t get those unless you work on Wall Street. And the thing about all this struggle - because living in the city IS a struggle; it can be such a great ride, but it’s certainly not easy - is that it keeps you dreaming that things will change.”<br/><br/> - <em><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://ramshackleglam.tumblr.com/post/17316737017/this-kind-of-life" target="_blank">Ramshackle Glam: This Kind Of Life</a></em>http://sarakatherinerunnels.com/post/17320313316http://sarakatherinerunnels.com/post/17320313316Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:48:00 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz3vbvxIfW1qcz5u1o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Yes. Always yes. </p>http://sarakatherinerunnels.com/post/17301151438http://sarakatherinerunnels.com/post/17301151438Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:20:13 -0500<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz1hipGYlg1qz6eu6o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Celebrate everylove, y’all. </p>http://sarakatherinerunnels.com/post/17221171529http://sarakatherinerunnels.com/post/17221171529Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:13:00 -0500Says my Starbucks cup<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz0bd2KRmD1qz6eu6o1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz0bd2KRmD1qz6eu6o2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><strong>Woody & Diane<em>, Manhattan</em>, 1979.<br/>Us, Real life, 2012. </strong></p>http://sarakatherinerunnels.com/post/17213085346http://sarakatherinerunnels.com/post/17213085346Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:33:00 -0500““That was the year, my twenty-eighth, when I was discovering that not all promises would be kept, that some things are in fact irrevocable and that it had counted after all, every evasion and every procrastination, every mistake, every word, all of it.””<br/><br/> - <em>Joan Didion, <em>Goodbye to All That </em></em>http://sarakatherinerunnels.com/post/17209266089http://sarakatherinerunnels.com/post/17209266089Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:16:00 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz00glF6VJ1qz6eu6o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Moon over the Queensboro Bridge. </p>http://sarakatherinerunnels.com/post/17183170483http://sarakatherinerunnels.com/post/17183170483Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:07:33 -0500“Write the woman you are, or sing her, or stitch her, or shout her as loud as you can at the pub quiz this week. Whatever it is that is your jam. You do not have to be spoken for, if you speak.”<br/><br/> - <em><em><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://meghanagain.tumblr.com/post/17158305845/last-week-new-girl-put-the-internets-problems" target="_blank">How You Gonna Keep ‘Em Down</a> </em></em>http://sarakatherinerunnels.com/post/17160975505http://sarakatherinerunnels.com/post/17160975505Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:24:06 -0500<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/RPN0E_UamIo?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>It’s <a href="http://animal.discovery.com/tv/puppy-bowl/" target="_blank">PUPPY BOWL</a> Sunday!</p> <p>REALLY wish I was sitting in a fancy suite on the 50-yard line at the Puppy Bowl today. </p>http://sarakatherinerunnels.com/post/17098166898http://sarakatherinerunnels.com/post/17098166898Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:08:02 -0500<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyw9bacQQ81qz6eu6o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Love sitting with my boo on the East Riv at sunset.</p>http://sarakatherinerunnels.com/post/17060628455http://sarakatherinerunnels.com/post/17060628455Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:01:32 -0500<p>Monique: Why’d you even get a Roomba? <br/>Me: My boyfriend came with one?</p>http://sarakatherinerunnels.com/post/17010106036http://sarakatherinerunnels.com/post/17010106036Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:32:00 -0500<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lytqbmsR0w1qbileyo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>You know it.</p>http://sarakatherinerunnels.com/post/16977299765http://sarakatherinerunnels.com/post/16977299765Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:54:00 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyga78SzW61qj6xzto1_500.gif"/><br/><br/>http://sarakatherinerunnels.com/post/16877842397http://sarakatherinerunnels.com/post/16877842397Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:46:15 -0500<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyq3pqGJZO1qz6eu6o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>My “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FV-YO46E8Y" target="_blank">sock bun</a>” curls didn’t turn out <em>that</em> great (not to mention, there’s nothing like sleeping <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/omgskr/status/164567129037877248" target="_blank">with a pastry on your head</a>), but on the upside, all I did to my hair this morning was take a rolled-up sock out of it.</p>http://sarakatherinerunnels.com/post/16867980932http://sarakatherinerunnels.com/post/16867980932Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:43:00 -0500Me Me Me<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/iZ9mV8ZSDW4?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><blockquote> <p><strong>A NYC subway busker performs the hell out of Adele’s “Someone Like You.” [via <a href="http://www.refinery29.com/" target="_blank">refinery29</a>]</strong></p> </blockquote> <p>This guy is one of the ten thousand reasons I love New York and he doesn’t even know it.</p>http://sarakatherinerunnels.com/post/16864366473http://sarakatherinerunnels.com/post/16864366473Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:46:00 -0500New York I love you.<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lymk7gIR2Z1qz6eu6o2_r2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lymk7gIR2Z1qz6eu6o1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lymk7gIR2Z1qz6eu6o6_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lymk7gIR2Z1qz6eu6o9_r1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lymk7gIR2Z1qz6eu6o5_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lymk7gIR2Z1qz6eu6o3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lymk7gIR2Z1qz6eu6o18_r1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lymk7gIR2Z1qz6eu6o10_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lymk7gIR2Z1qz6eu6o7_r1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lymk7gIR2Z1qz6eu6o8_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><em>Saturday afternoon was unexpectedly beautiful and so it was spent at the <a href="http://www.bbg.org/" target="_blank">Brooklyn Botanical Garden</a> in Fort Greene, aimlessly wandering the grounds and treating ourselves to long, deep breaths (because the NYC nature scene isn’t exactly poppin’) and posing for pictures on various charming bridges and pretending to read the scientific names of all the dying foliage and enjoying the moments our (limited) bare skin made contact with the sun. And despite the garden’s mid-winter gloom, there were still hints of color and life and bits of subtle splendor — the skies alone were in fine form, and so it was certainly worth the unintentional 3 trains we took to get there. And after our fling with nature, we headed to the <a href="http://www.brooklynflea.com/" target="_blank">Brooklyn Flea</a> (which sits inside the most gorgeous old bank building) and thumbed through dusty 45s (because I am now the owner of a handsome & perfect & unnecessary record player) and spent lots of time saying, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XM3vWJmpfo" target="_blank">Put a bird on it</a>!” because there was not a single vendor who didn’t fit the stereotype. And once the flea closed down and the sun clocked out and we were left high & dry (or freezing & hungry) on Atlantic Avenue, we followed our noses and stumbled upon <a href="http://www.thesmokejoint.com/" target="_blank">The Smoke Joint</a>, an unassuming little restaurant with ridiculous pulled pork sammies, where we ate our weight in barbeque and basically had to roll each other back into Manhattan.</em></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><em> So what I’m saying is, life is good. Even in the dead of winter.</em></p>http://sarakatherinerunnels.com/post/16780588811http://sarakatherinerunnels.com/post/16780588811Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:21:00 -0500<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lykykwZnsV1qz6eu6o1_r1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>PUPPY LOVE.</p>http://sarakatherinerunnels.com/post/16720280402http://sarakatherinerunnels.com/post/16720280402Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:02:00 -0500<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyktetLNcm1qz6eu6o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Puppy-sitting my cousin’s MINI Golden Retriever today!!!!</p> <p>It goes without saying that I am madly in love with that precious face.</p>http://sarakatherinerunnels.com/post/16713225375http://sarakatherinerunnels.com/post/16713225375Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:58:00 -0500<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyj57qBW911qz6eu6o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>The sky was out of control today.</p>http://sarakatherinerunnels.com/post/16658782757http://sarakatherinerunnels.com/post/16658782757Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:31:01 -0500<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyj546htwx1qz6eu6o1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Beautiful Saturday afternoon at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens!</p>http://sarakatherinerunnels.com/post/16658665865http://sarakatherinerunnels.com/post/16658665865Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:28:00 -0500