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A Pandemic Christmas
Fearing there wouldn't be any trees this year, I went and bought a fake one. The day it arrived, the Canadians set up shop down the block with their real trees.
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Home Schooling – Part II. Lessons learned.
13 things I learned from homeschooling....six hours of cartoons does not make a three year old cross eyed.
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Lines, Q’s & Coups
There were lines for everything, likely instilling a saintly patience in the Russian psyche. Not so for the rest of us.
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Banana Republic
Admittedly, I haven’t spent much time, if any, in a banana republic, but what I witnessed in NYC today feels like I’m in a banana republic. A very big one at that. A day before the general election, Manhattan, once again, is boarding up all its stores in anticipation of riots and protests a day before we go to the polls. A country rife with voter suppression, voter intimidation, a President undermining faith in the election, openly saying if he doesn’t win, it will be because of fraud. Hardly feels stable. I voted early. I’m lucky, I only stood in line for 2 hours or so. I know others who…
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Making Traditions seem “Traditional” in a Pandemic
...making yearly traditions seem somewhat normal during a pandemic.
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Punk’d to Action
Democracies were borne of bloodshed & strive. Lives risked in the pursuit of peace, justice and democratic power. But rather than shed blood, I will go and vote in person despite the raging COVID-19 virus ravaging this country.
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Alternative Reality
When I started writing this blog, back when New York shut down in March, I and indeed everyone else, were dealing with the great unknown. There’s a virus and it may kill us all. My personal stories like this drove home that theory. People I knew were dying. And in the grimness of that reality, I felt two things. The need to find hope, even in the smallest of things like running. And a compelling need to document what we were experiencing for my kids, future generations and historians. I hate the fact that the issues that have recently beset the Upper West Side, where I live, have been co-opted…
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Ice Cream – You Scream – NYC’s Rising Food Prices
With ice cream cones at $7...how much more will the consumer have to suffer inflated costs under the guise of COVID? And what impacts will that have on overall spending, particularly amongst discretionary items?
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Perspective is Everything
"Imagine you were born in 1900.When you're 14, World War I begins and ends when you're 18 with 22 million dead.Soon after a global pandemic, the Spanish Flu, appears, killing 50 million people. And you're alive and 20 years old..."
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The Times are a Changin’
"..here's a picture I took today of a man menacingly brandishing a hammer in the middle of Broadway on 79th street.....What started as a story about rightfully concerned parents worried about their family's safety has turned into a race / white privilege issue."
