Good Riddance: A Goodbye to a Good Ride

A hurricane, puppy puke, and the end of the road for our beloved family car.

Aly thought the original photo I was going to use of our old Toyota Highlander was too boring, so she made this.

The fall of 2012 was one of the best times of my life, but it was also one of the worst for my beloved city of New York. I got married to my current husband, David, in early October; a few weeks later Hurricane Sandy decimated huge parts of the Northeast with massive flooding and tropical storm winds reaching 150 mph that ripped homes from the ground and blew out much of Manhattan’s power grid.