How we got here

We were living in New York City in the West Village, on Jane Street. Actually in the top floor of an historic brownstone where Alexander Hamilton died after his fatal duel with Aaron Burr. There was a plaque to this effect on the outside of the building until “Hamilton” became the Broadway rage and the owners took it down. But we lived there many years before that time, when our rent for a 4th floor, 2-bedroom Greenwich Village walkup was $700 a month, not $10,000 as that particular apartment rents for now.

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Monastic living

It’s just the two of us, me and Buzz, in our own private monastery.

The daily routine is simple and rhythmic: wake between 5 and 6, have coffee in bed together for an hour or so, talking through possibilities in the coming day or family issues or whatever is going on in the world.

Then he goes down to the studio to feed the cat and do his hour-long exercise while I shower, dress, make the bed, do my own exercise, and pray through The Magnificat.

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