When I was first married we lived in an apartment on the second floor of a building that was one of two identical brick buildings. We lived in apartment 2Q, at the far end of the hallway … a corner apartment… Read More ›
New York
Star Struck
I’ve met a few celebrities over the years, mostly because I’m married to someone who used to be a reporter and whose job it was to talk to people, including a fair number of celebrities. However, the first celebrity I… Read More ›
My Empty Bucket
WordPress suggested we write about the 11th item on our bucket list. The subject alarmed me. I don’t have a bucket list. I’ve never had a bucket list. Until the movie of the same name came out in 2007, I’d never… Read More ›
Old dog, new tricks: My photographic evolution.
I have always preferred photographing landscapes. There are several reasons why, the most prominent being I’m good at it. In the same way that reading and writing came naturally to me, taking picture postcard style photos has been easy. Give me almost… Read More ›
The State House Dressed for the Holidays
Boston is genuinely beautiful at night. The only other city I’ve lived in that exceeds it is Jerusalem and she is in a class of her own… and an entirely different experience. New York is exciting, but it’s not (mostly) a… Read More ›
Coney Island after Hurricane Sandy
See on Scoop.it – Forty Two: Life and Other Important Things CONEY ISLAND, NEW YORK—Despite rumors of looting in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, there was no evidence of mobs near the area’s famous boardwalk this afternoon. around the usually bustling… Read More ›
She’s On Her Way
By the time we got to Walmart, there wasn’t any bottled drinking water left except for the expensive stuff that always tastes to me like polluted water. Yuk. So we bought one large trash can (plastic, with wheels, Rubber Maid),… Read More ›
Do you remember Nunley’s?
– If you grew up or lived on Long Island sometime before and until the late 1980s, you’ll remember Nunley’s. When they closed and sold their wonderful old carousel that had an actual working Calliope, I tried to talk the city… Read More ›
One morning, eleven years ago
September 11, 2012. Eleven years since two hijacked airplanes were intentionally crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York. Eleven years and so much has happened, yet I remember the day more clearly than I… Read More ›
Neighborhoods, Part 2
Continued from Neighborhoods Other girls lived nearby but were not eligible to join our group. Tribal affiliation was accounted block by block. You belonged to the group of kids whose block you shared. Woe to he or she who lived… Read More ›
Neighborhoods
People are surprised when I tell them that this town with its oak woods, huge plots of land, picket fences and farms reminds me of the neighborhood in which I grew up. I was raised in the middle of Queens,… Read More ›
And the grave is not the goal …
Memories from the final road? On the outskirts of Scranton, Pennsylvania, settling in for the night. A road trip moment. We just drove through the Catskills, past so many places we remember from childhood. In those days, these mountain towns were home… Read More ›
Serendipity Seeking Intelligent Life on Earth 