Last year at Christmas we bought a live tree, a short thing standing about three feet tall. It’s a prickly tree with a funky bald spot, probably the result of the burning sunshine and under-watering during one of last summer’s…
MID JANUARY
Category: city scape
SMALL REMEMBRANCES
With the start of every new year there’s a persistent niggling in the back of my brain about how to get organized. I’m not a disorganized person, quite the contrary, I know where I’ve tucked away everything that I own.…
A NEW SHORT STORY
WISHING YOU ALL THE BEST OF HEALTH AND HAPPINESS IN THIS COMING NEW YEAR!! I have a new short story published in Kings River Life Magazine. It’s a dark Christmas Tale titled A VOICE TO REMEMBER. It was first published…
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…
A BRIEF REPRIEVE FROM THE WRITING LIFE
Lately I’ve been doing a great deal of work on PUSHING WATER, a novel in revision, and getting the final drafts of FISH KICKER ready for its publication that’s coming in March 2014. Most of the day I sit at…
I’M INTERVIEWED BY HELENA FAIRFAX
Today, November 5, I am interviewed by Helena Fairfax a lovely British romance writer, an insatiable book lover and a crazy rescue dog owner. She has graciously opened her website to me and I’d like to invite you to virtually…
FULL MOON IN OCTOBER
I’ve never had any desire to dabble in astronomy, but I do like a moonlit night. That’s not always easy to see when you live in a big city like New York. The full moon in October this year played…
MUSEUM HOPPING: THE BOXER AND THE BEAUTIFUL
In the last couple of months I did some museum hopping for a little distraction from writing. My novel, FISH KICKER, is in the hands of the publisher. I’m waiting for the copy editor to send me the final draft…
ANOTHER DAY OF SUMMER
The sky was a brilliant blue. A soft, cool breeze gently rustled the leaves of the geranium plants on our terrace. What a perfect day for a stroll along a boardwalk, and we jumped on a subway to take the…
DRAGON BOAT RACING IN FLUSHING MEADOW CORONA PARK
What a great day for the Dragon Boat Festival. I knew the bright sun would reflect beautifully off Flushing Lake, the light summer breeze would not hamper the flow of the boats, and the comfortable temperatures of the last couple…