Hanging out is a concept lost to modern youth, but the most fun times of my young years were spent hanging out. Too bad modern kids have lost it. I was a teenager in college. Madly in love with my first… Read More ›
New York
THE GREAT WHITE HURRICANE OF MARCH 11, 1888 – Marilyn Armstrong
Today is my birthday. It’s also the 132nd anniversary of the worst blizzard to ever hit the east coast of the United States. Early March is frequently stormy and snowy. Blizzards are not unusual, though typically, snow melts quickly in… Read More ›
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 ›
DRINKING THE NEWS – Garry Armstrong
Manhattan in the mid-’60s. I was a newbie newsie at ABC News. The kid reporter among guys who’d worked for Ed Murrow and shared tall tales about Mayor LaGuardia, Governor “Beau Jimmy” Walker, Tammany Hall grifters, speakeasies, Jazz and an… Read More ›
HANGING OUT — MARILYN ARMSTRONG
Hanging out is a concept lost to modern youth. I think it’s a tragedy, personally. The best parts of my life were spent hanging out. I was a teenager in college. Madly in love with my first boyfriend who was seriously… Read More ›
THE WHITE HURRICANE: 03-11-1888
Today is my birthday. It’s also the anniversary of the biggest, baddest blizzard to ever hit the east coast of the United States. The early part of March is frequently stormy. Blizzards are common, though usually the snow melts quickly… Read More ›
MY NEIGHBORHOOD
I don’t even know how many times WordPress has run this prompt or some close version of it. I do not know how many times I have responded to it, but here is a clip from my book that is… Read More ›
WEEKLY WRITING CHALLENGE: SAME OLD WORLD
I was born in Brooklyn and grew up in Queens. That’s New York, a city divided into 5 boroughs, each with its own character. Folks think New York is all Manhattan. Wall Street, the Empire State Building. Fifth Avenue. Skyscrapers. But… Read More ›
Daily Prompt: It Builds Character — Star Struck
I met my first celebrity while working at the Steinway building in New York. Down the street from CBS Studios. It was 1967 and the filming of “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” was finishing up. For several weeks, each lunchtime I bumped into Sidney Poitier on his way to lunch…. Read More ›
WAITING TO GO HOME
I moved to New England 35 years ago. I don’t want to sound like a cliché, but it feels as if it was no more than few months ago. On some level, I think like a transplanted New Yorker. Yet… 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 ›
Daily Prompt: Fandom — Beisbol
I always liked baseball. I grew up in New York where the annual epic battles between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Yankees were so important we listened to the games in classrooms in elementary school during school hours. When… Read More ›
