Talk about playing catch up: all the way back in February, I spent an unseasonably mild afternoon in jewelry designer Erin Considine's sun-washed little studio snapping photos for a feature in Got a Girl Crush Magazine. Fast forward several months and countless hours of hard work on the part of founders and editors Meg Wachter and Andrea Cheng, and GAGC Issue #2 is now hot off the presses.
...And just like that, I'm back in the gritty city.
It's been HOT HOT HOT here, and all I can think about since we got back from our travels is getting OUT OUT OUT of this city again, fast. Instead, I spend the worst parts of each day shut up in the bedroom (the only room in the house that has sweet, sweet AC) seeking refuge from concrete sidewalks that radiate waves of garbage-infused heat and a kitchen and livingroom hot enough to make me weep salty, sweaty tears. 
The very happiest of Fourth's to you and yours, from Little Edie and myself.
