The Urban Sherpa

Time Lapse

Christopher DeWan — Sun, 11 May 2008 07:00:00 -0500

"And if you can, at nineteen, count the people you love on one hand, you will not, at forty, have run out of fingers on the other. There are so few people given us to love and they all stick. ...

Up Over the Manhattan Bridge Overpass

Christopher DeWan — Thu, 08 May 2008 07:00:00 -0500

I walk home from work. It's a trip that (according to Mapquest) is five and a half miles door-to-door, and it takes an hour—an hour which I'm afraid says less about my health, and more about my somewhat wasteful use of my free time. But I enjoy it. ...

Where Every American Dream Goes to Die

Christopher DeWan — Sat, 03 May 2008 07:00:00 -0500

I'm not a very good driver. You should know that, first of all. This fact doesn't keep me off the road, but I do hit things: I bump into cabs, crash into streetlights, and every now and then, I'll sideswipe a pedestrian in a crosswalk. It's terrible. ...

Buy-a-Baby

Christopher DeWan — Fri, 02 May 2008 07:00:00 -0500

You've always been an achiever. You put your career first, and you worked hard to get where you are. You and your spouse have a lovely Brooklyn brownstone, an Audi Quattro you never drive, and a combined income that would be, in any other city, above average. ...

Unrecycling

Christopher DeWan — Thu, 01 May 2008 07:00:00 -0500

Like so many of my fellow Americans, I am deeply concerned about fossil fuel consumption and the resulting effects on the global climate�but not enough to do very much about it. (Said