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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."
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The Show Must Go On
I have many friends who make their living as actors, musicians, writers and indeed the entire support eco-system that goes into producing great works of art....they will see better days ahead, for all things must end and the phoenix will arise from the flames.
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In stillness, there is life: Running through a COVID-quieted New York City
With the world now on pause, COVID’s timeout has given me a beautiful running experience I thought I’d never have. The world may have been on hold, but that didn’t mean I needed to be.
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Day 19 – Homeschooling – Unmitigated Disaster
We have two feral animals that have taken over our apartment. To say the place looks like Aleppo would be an understatement. For those non-New Yorker’s reading this, we predominantly live in apartments in NYC, which is a markedly different experience to having a house. Cabin fever takes on a whole new meaning during stay a home orders. My naughty time consists of trawling Zillow and Trulia dreaming of space and backyards. I’m envious of my many friends with older, self-reliant, kids. Babylicious is 2 and Chisler is 5. They have miraculously become “independent thinkers “with their “own idea” of free time. Parents & schedules be damned. The first few…
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Day 11 – Tumbleweeds
Day 11 – I’ve decided to combine my running with my documentarian side. For those who didn’t know, I used to be a filmmaker back in the day. Nothing of which I’m confident you’ve seen. But I can assure you, no animals or children were harmed in the process (according to IMDB). Hypersensitive to social distancing, I find running on rainy days to be the most appropriate. Less people out and amateur runners stay home. I’ve not experienced an urban run as exhilarating and strange as this. I could run on the roads and paths unfettered by throngs of thousands blocking my way. It felt like I was running in…
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Day 8 – A COVID Diary NYC
It’s Day 8 in NYC and I can already see the effects of a total commercial shutdown. One of the greatest cities in the world, a city I call home and the epicenter of the #COVID-19 outbreak in America, brought to its knees. I never imagined myself and my family, and by extension you reading this, would ever live through a global crisis such as this. It’s almost unimaginable. I now find myself looking at life through a dystopian like prism. Distorted. Raw. Grim. I recoil in horror when I see people shaking hands, kissing, touching, coughing and the like on TV and films – streaming to masses in every…
