Lucky star wishes were once grand: Today I just want the snow to go away and be in Candyland I was young when Madonna came out with the song Lucky Star. I remember all the young girls around me singing away to the lyrics at recess. Looking back, […]
When I lived down in Battery Park (near Ground Zero in Manhattan) I used to crazily walk to work everyday whether there was sleet, snow or heavy shine. That walk would approximately take 40 minutes on a good day. If there was high wind, then it may have […]
Living in a New York Oz Neighborhood: The Racer, The Smoker, The Harangued Mommy, and The Pet-Friendly Curmudgeon Daily Prompt: Good Fences A while back, Hilary Clinton noted that it takes a village to raise a child. At the time, I lived in California and wondered whether I […]
Born to Run and Surf on the Sunset Daily Prompt: Machine Bruce Springsteen said it best when he sang Born to Run: h-Oh, Someday girl I don’t know when we’re gonna get to that place Where we really wanna go and we’ll walk in the sun But till […]
The Superstitions attached with Putting the Silverware Away Daily Prompt: Putting the Dishes Away I am a very messy person. Messes follow me at work, at home and even on the subway. I just leave everything lying about. I take great pride in being messy. There is research […]
My mom 100% unabashedly believed in ghosts. I thus grew up with ghosts in my corner, or so that is where I placed them. It may be that nobody outs baby in the corner, but ghosts they readily belong therein. My son, until about the age of four, […]
Phillip Seymour Hoffman died Sunday at the age of 46. Besides being a very talented actor with an Oscar win for best Actor in the movie Capote, he was also noted for being very much a humble man. He showed up early to interviews. He biked around Manhattan […]
Where are we this week? Here in the United States we just had the President’s State of the Union address that always, year after year, proclaims that the union is strong. The Super Bowl is about to be played in the New York/New Jersey area sending everyone (not […]
As someone who has wanderlust I hope to instill a worldview in my son’s young consciousness. He is only five years old but he has already developed a taste for travel. He especially likes staying in hotels; due in part to the fact that he is very well […]
Daily Prompt: Giving My 26 Bones a Time out in a New York Minute I am the quintessential New Yorker: I have never had a driver’s license, I speed walk everywhere and I tend to eat lunch either on my feet, at my desk or with a cocktail. […]
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