Christine Witmer - Sparing Stringer

11 Mar 2010

Cou Cou Bijoux At Dixon Place

Twelve dollars could buy you…

One cosmopolitan.
or
Three tacos from the Endless Summer Taco Truck in Williamsburg.
or
A bottle of wine.
or………

Christine Witmer - Sparing Stringer 0
06 Mar 2010

Weekend in a Convent.

I decided to take a theatre workshop a couple of weeks ago which required that I go to upstate New York for four days and three nights.  It just so happened that when we pulled in to where we would be staying and workshopping, my colleagues and I realized that

Christine Witmer - Sparing Stringer 0
04 Mar 2010

FREE Standup at The Knitting Factory

As I write this I find I am having a little bit of a crisis of conscience.  That is because I am recommending that people go see stand-up comedy at The Knitting Factory in Brooklyn on March 7th at nine pm.  It is not because I didn’t enjoy myself when

Christine Witmer - Sparing Stringer 0
28 Feb 2010

My Weekend in Atlantic City

Recently, I had a dream that I won $900,000,000.00 on a slot machine.  In an effort to capitalize on what I was SURE was a premonition.  My hubby and I took off for the always divine Atlantic City. Our plan was to do this weekend getaway on a budget (until

Christine Witmer - Sparing Stringer 0
25 Feb 2010

Free Reading, Treats and Help With Dinner

I believe that people fall under two categories’ Those who eat cereal for dinner. Those who do not. I fall under the former.  I craft suppers out of the sparsest of cabinets.  If it is up to me, I am happy to scrounge up some small, homogeneous scraps to tide

Christine Witmer - Sparing Stringer 0
21 Feb 2010

My Awesome Invention

I come from a long line of inventors.  The most highly developed in our lineage was my grandpa Ralph.  It all began, he told me, when he invented a basket that he lowered from his second floor bedroom as a child, into the kitchen below.  He claimed that his mother

Christine Witmer - Sparing Stringer 0
18 Feb 2010

FREE Tours at Chelsea Brewery

Do you ever look into your frosty alcoholic beverage and think: What makes you so delicious, beer?  How do you taste so good?  Then, do you ever think: Why do I want ten more of you?  Now it is possible to get answers to the first two and more (the

Christine Witmer - Sparing Stringer 0