Weather with you.

Mayor of the Lower East Side.
New York City. August 2008.

Late July in New York City. The weather ought to be brutally hot and sticky, but it's remarkably cool and breezy. It has been for most of the past two weeks since I've been back. Mia would be *loving* this. Perfect weather for sipping coffee at a sidewalk table outside Brown; perfect weather for spreading a blanket in Central Park and reading the Sunday papers; perfect weather for a long walk through Soho to the "faraway bakery"; perfect weather for cooking a nice supper at home (it's too much to fire up the oven when the New York heat really kicks in). Mostly, it's just perfect weather for smiling all big and badass, and laughing at something—anything—which is exactly what Mia would be doing right now.