Category: NYC

MID JANUARY

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…

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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.…

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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…

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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…

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I’M A UNION LADY AGAIN

A couple of weeks ago I joined the National Writers Union a UAW Local 1981/AFL-CIO. They offer resources, giving writers assistance with contract advice and grievances with publishers. Their strength comes from pooling information from other writers and lawyers, and…

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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…

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