From the mosque we took a taxi to another part of the city, a very old quarter that will most likely be torn down in the next couple of years to make way for large and ugly apartment buildings. We…
OLD DISTRICT IN BEIJING
Author: Pushing Time
I'm an award-winning author who lives and writes in New York City. I'm also an avid photographer that drags not only my laptop, but also my Nikon where ever I go. I have an MFA in Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. Most of my work life has been in the mental health field, though for the last 10 years devoteI have devoted myself to writing fulltime and taking photographs.
OUR FIRST TOUR OF BEIJING
On our first full day here met up with Blake, our daughter and son-in-law’s friend living in Beijing. He had agreed to take us around the city for the day. Our first stop was a mosque. Very old and in…
WE ARE HERE IN BEIJING
So we got here, the first leg of our 15 day China tour. I wanted to upload more photos but it seems that from this part of the world only one photo is allowed per blog session. And that’s not…
We’re headed for China this afternoon
We’ve been awake since way before 5:00 this morning just tooo excited to sleep any more. The flight is 4:30ish this afternoon and almost everything is packed. We saw our grandson last night and our daughter and son-in-law. Pizza and…
DADDY’S GIRL and A STREET MUSCIAN
Traveling on the subway you never know what you’ll see or experience. The one thing that you can be sure of is that you’ll find plenty to see. I’ve begun to take my camera with me wherever I go. And…
Zebra crossing at Macy’s on 34th St. and Harold Square seen from the Empire State Building in Manhattan
Zebra crossing at Macy’s on 34th St. and Harold Square seen from the Empire State Building in Manhattan Originally uploaded by margaret mendel. This is a test posting. I’m learning how to upload and send photos from the Flickr.com to…
SCOTLAND YARD
(These photographs were taken from the internet.)The following is a reprint of an article I wrote for the Noose, the newsletter for Mystery Writers of America. INSIDE SCOTLAND YARDSecuring order, preventing crime and the detection and punishment of offenders, if…
JUST THOUGHT YOU’D LIKE TO SEE WHAT I SAW ON A WALK IN NEW YORK CITY LAST SATURDAY
Our visitor from California is still here and we’re seeing the sights of New York like we were tourists, too. But that’s a good thing and I’ve included a few picture from the stroll we took on the Westside and…
SHOPPING NEAR MIDNIGHT
A friend, Alan Holland, has come for a 9 day stay. He’s from California. He got in last last night and we decided to pick up a few groceries at Fairway. He’s a real camera buff and so we both…
A TRIP TO SING SING AND THEY GAVE ME A MUG
(This was written several years ago after a Mystery Writers of America fieldtrip to Sing Sing.)Sing Sing is the only prison bisected by railroad tracks, and a few minutes before our Metro North Train pulled into the Ossening station, we…