I am trying to finish a short story and what I really need is a good snow storm to keep me indoors and plunking away at the computer keyboard. I have a beginning and an ending. All I’m asking for…
NEW YORK CITY’S SNOW STORM YESTERDAY
Category: artist
CLEARING PHOTOGRAPHY CLUTTER
I’m into clearing clutter these days, and though we drastically downsized a couple years ago, gathering ‘stuff’ seems to be as natural to me as breathing. So, lesson learned, I will not let ‘stuff’ get the upper-hand in my life.…
WATER PUPPETS IN HANOI
In October 2007 we visited Vietnam. At the time, I had started research on a novel based in that country and desperately wanted to see the real thing. I knew that I’d only get a tourist’s view in the short time…
TERRACOTTA DAUGHTERS
The other day I heard about Prune Nourry’s “Terracotta Daughters” exhibit in Lower Manhattan. It was only going to be in the city for another week and when I read the review I had to make time to travel downtown…
PHOENIX AT ST. JOHN THE DIVINE
Every couple of months I visit The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine. It’s the mother church of the Episcopal Diocese of New York and a big tourist attraction. If I see a lot of tour buses parked outside,…
ELEPHANTS IN THAILAND
The Thai people have a long and shared history with the elephant and since my visit to Thailand I have a broader understanding of these huge animals. I’d seen elephants in the Zoo and watched them do tricks in circuses, but…
Kara Walters “A Subtlety” in the Domino Sugar Factory
I promised myself that I’d go back to the Kara Walter’s “A Subtlety” instillation in the central refinery building of the Domino Sugar Factory. And I am so glad that I did. Unlike the cloudy and misty day the last…
WALKING ACROSS THE WILLIAMSBURG BRIDGE
The other day a friend and I decided to walk across the Williamsburg Bridge, have lunch and then head over to the art installation, Kara Walker’s Sugar Sphinx, at the Domino Sugar Factory in Brooklyn. Heavy grey clouds hung low…
A WEEKEND IN PHILADELPHIA
Last weekend my husband and I celebrated our wedding anniversary by taking an hour and a half train ride to Philadelphia. The weather was lovely, the sky dotted with white cotton-ball clouds, and the temperature was in the high 70’s…
MERMAID PARADE, CONEY ISLAND 2013
It’s mid-December. The weather outside today is dreary, cold and it looks like New York was saved from a major winter storm that crept across the USA heading to the East coast. Miraculously it by-passed us. I get nostalgic about summer when…