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Grand Openings and New Beginnings
July 1st sees the full re-opening of New York. For those of us who live here, it already feels like a new beginning. Almost everything is open. The only thing I can’t do is work in my office. I joined my company during the pandemic, so I’ve never actually met any of my new colleagues in person. But at this point, I’m “zoomed” out, so I’d relish a few optional days in the office later this year. An additional bonus includes finally discarding my mask since, per the CDC’s guidance, I’m fully vaccinated. Which couldn’t have come sooner. Because of the masks, I developed an unusual condition that felt like…
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Moderna Man
Twelve months and one week after NYC was shutdown, I'm finally eligible to get my first shot....testimony to America's ingenuity
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Voice Call
Voice call to all New Yorker's and those that love NYC. What's that you say? Tell me more...
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500,000
I have run by Javits Centre numerous times on my weekly workouts, still possible within midtown because traffic and people are still light on the ground, where they are supposedly deploying mass vaccinations. But each time I go by, there is no one there.
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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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Making Traditions seem “Traditional” in a Pandemic
...making yearly traditions seem somewhat normal during a pandemic.
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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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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."
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A Tombstone to the Past
I decided to film some of my runs to visually document what I was seeing. For like all things, this must end and when it does I hope it's a document to how things were during this extraordinary time. We can look back, nod and say bravely we survived this.
