A Pandemic Parade, by Rich Paschall In case you are one of those who sleep in on Thanksgiving, you may be pleased to know there was a Thanksgiving Day Parade of sorts. We can not blame you for staying in… Read More ›
New York City
WOODCLEFT CANAL, FREEPORT, LONG ISLAND – Marilyn Armstrong
Freeport, Long Island. It’s in Nassau Country, the closest county on Long Island to New York. I grew up in the city. In Queens, which is a borough of New York. Each of New York’s boroughs has its own character… Read More ›
MY OLD NEIGHBORHOOD – Marilyn Armstrong
I grew up in a semi-rural nook in the middle of Queens, New York. The city had surrounded us leaving a tiny enclave walking distance from the subway. The house was more than a hundred years old. It had been… Read More ›
THE JOYS OF DOORMEN – BY ELLIN CURLEY
I lived in New York City for the first 40 years of my life and since then I’ve lived in the woods in a small town in Connecticut. So I have a good perspective on life in the city versus… Read More ›
REMEMBERING THE DAY
On September 11, 2001, I had just gotten back from overseas. I’d been in Israel, a business trip. While there, I picked up some kind of nasty bug that kept me very close to home — and a bathroom —… Read More ›
HANGING OUT – GREENWICH VILLAGE MEMORIES
Garry and I watched a documentary on Netflix titled “Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation.” It was about Greenwich Village in the 1960s. Both Garry and I were there. He was already a working reporter, but young enough to… Read More ›
JERUSALEM OF GOLD AND THE BIG APPLE
TWO CITIES, TWO WORLDS Once again, WordPress is offering to rehome us to not one, but the two cities of our choice. This is easy for me. I’ll take Jerusalem, golden Jerusalem of my heart … and my home town,… Read More ›
THE NEIGHBORHOOD
I grew up in a semi-rural nook in the middle of Queens, New York. The city had surrounded us leaving a tiny enclave walking distance from the subway. The house was more than a hundred years old. It had been… Read More ›
Where I was that day
On September 11, 2001, I had just gotten back from overseas. I’d been in Israel, a business trip. While there, I picked up some kind of nasty bug that kept me very close to home — and a bathroom —… Read More ›
Hello? Can you hear me? — I love progress!
Progress. I love progress and am strongly in favor of it, especially when we are progressing backwards. Kind of like technological time travel as gradually, by adding more and better high-tech devices, stuff that used to be simple and problem-free… Read More ›
Watch Out for Pigeons!
Anyone who knows me at all knows I love roller coasters. I love them all … but for me, there’s nothing that comes near the Cyclone at Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York. Been riding it since I was 8 years. I’m… Read More ›
Back to Coney Island – Summer’s Back!
Scared and screaming, laughing and screaming some more … Sometimes hot and sweaty, dirty and grubby, or clean and shining with the gleaming water and soft sand … Coney Island was a great place to be alive. You got to… Read More ›