There’s Nothing Like an Old Book

Maybe it’s the faint smell it exudes that’s like no other smell? Maybe it’s the dust? Maybe it’s thinking about who handled the book. Whatever it is, there is no other feeling like it. When I find an old book I always think about where the book came from and where its been. Sometimes when [...]

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Global warming has Good Side Effects

Everyone always complains about global warming and the ice caps melting. Right here in Manhattan where we will be the first to be drowning in polar ice cap run off, I haven’t heard a single person complaining about the warm winter and early spring. The magnolias and cherry blossoms look magnificent in full bloom. If [...]

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Women’s Magazines Suck

Yesterday I found a blog hosting site called Open Salon and started browsing through the articles. It seemed like there were a lot of shock-type articles on the site that led me to some other articles that got me thinking and wasting a lot of time. The topic was condoms, the pill, sex and abortion. [...]

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My Plaza is Liberty Plaza

My Plaza is/was Wall Street or Liberty Plaza also known as Zuccotti Park. (Who’s terrible idea was it to change the name of that park? Oh, I guess it was the owner, John Zuccotti’s idea.) Yes, I occupied a small space on Wall Street for a brief moment in time. There were people occupying more [...]

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One Tree Grows in Brooklyn

I’ve been in New York just over a year and I’m not afraid to admit that I still hate it. I’m not sure where I would be most happy because I’ve never liked anywhere I’ve lived. You know the old saying about geographical cures…That no matter where you go, there you are? I’m pretty sure [...]

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Only 60 Days Until Warm Weather!

I never thought I would be so happy about it being the first day of March. It was my first winter in NYC and it was brutal. I really got into a funk the last couple of weeks and I’m really looking forward to the visitors coming this spring and summer. I’m planning a couple [...]

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Too Cool to be Nice

I live near Williamsburg. It’s the “place to be” neighborhood in Brooklyn. There is no shortage of restaurants, shops and drinking establishments in my neighborhood albeit they’re extremely overpriced. Everyone is so cool here. And you know what comes with being super cool? A snotty attitude. It wouldn’t be fair to say everyone has a [...]

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Brooklyn Beatdown

Sometimes fiction can’t even begin to compare to the problems of real life. At 9:30 this morning I was walking to the train when I noticed a man running towards me. Then I noticed that he was being chased by another guy. The man running crossed the street and just as he was passing me, [...]

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Laundry Lines

This post was previously published by Isca Media. Before I came to New York for the first time I had this image of fashionable people and modern amenities. I thought everyone would be dressed in slick black clothing and cool boots. I imagined their apartments furnished in Bauhaus style with Bosch appliances. What most people [...]

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Starving In New York

I don’t find myself uncomfortable in very many situations but for some reason dining alone in a restaurant makes me more self aware than I like. I feel like I have to be doing something. I mean what do you do while you’re waiting for your food? You can’t just sit there staring into space [...]

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