No matter how hard I tried today I could not settle down to business as usual and the writing that I do every day was just not going to happen. So, I did what I often do when I have…
MONKEYING AROUND
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The New York City Flickr.Com Meetup
Last Saturday I had a great experience. I joined up with more than 150 other folks for a Flickr meetup at Hight Line Park in Manhattan. It was a brilliant sunny day perfect for a photographer. And it was a…
POST SUPER BOWL BLUES
It’s only been a couple of days since the Giants won the Super Bowl and I’m wondering what I’ll do now that there’s no football games to look forward to. I’m a new fan and I’ve never experienced this kind…
How To Cook A Wolf
This summer I read a book that’s been sitting on my bookshelf for years, “How to Cook a Wolf” by M.F.K. Fisher. I have seven of Fisher’s books and haven’t read any of them. There are a lot of books…
DINNER IN CHINATOWN
The other day we went to Chinatown to see what was going on for the Lunar New Year celebration. We knew it was a couple days too early to see the fireworks but the area was decked out in…
THE LUNAR NEW YEAR IS COMING SOON
The Lunar New Year 4710 begins January 23, 2012. In the lunar system of Months, the new moon day is the first day of a lunar month. The length of a lunar month is the length of time between two new…
GEMS
FROM BLOODLETTTER (the Sisters in Crime newsletter) Eight plotting women stood in the lobby of a building just around the corner from the largest diamond district in the world. They chatted about the weather, the wind was especially cruel that morning, and…
WHERE ARE YOU? HOW ARE YOU?
(Published in Literary Journal Global City Review, International 2002) It’s cold in the bedroom now that the air conditioner has dried out the New York August humidity. But still I cannot sleep, thinking about my early morning flight for what…
CHRISTMAS FLAN
My daughter baked the flan pictured here. It was baked in muffin tins in what is called a ‘water bath’, which means that the pan containing the batter was placed into a larger pan with water. If you have…
Christmas in Manhattan
I took a walk the other evening to check out the Holiday lights in Manhattan. What surprised me was the limited decorations. Except for the areas where there is always some kind of visual holiday delight the rest of the…