My husband and I walk to the local Farmer’s Market every Sunday morning. My role in this ritual is to stand around, drink coffee, and display the pug while my husband buys produce that he will eventually prepare. This gives me time to watch people.
Although there are shoppers of all ages in the early morning, [...]
Jim
Jim wasn’t the typical “Chelsea Boy” — a somewhat disparaging moniker given to gay, muscle-bound, intellectually-challenged men living in the west-side Manhattan neighborhood of Chelsea. He was sure trying, however. He had lost fifty pounds over the last two years, accomplished at the expense of sagging skin trying in vain to conform to [...]
One of my favorite pastimes is shopping for and collecting vinyl records. Old recordings, new recordings, hard-to-find recordings, you name it. If it’s an album that I like, or has a song that I like a lot, I need it on vinyl. It’s an odd obsession, perhaps. Odd because it is neither logical nor practical [...]
If we are truly waging a War on Terror, why are airline passengers called upon to be human shields?
This weekend I had to fly across the country on a family matter. Security lines, surprisingly, weren’t that bad. I think last week’s foiled terrorist plot had something to do with my delay getting out of JFK, [...]
From Part one:
… recognizing the incompleteness of the archive drives home the point that our access to past lives is characterized by contingency as much as it is shaped by historical actors who carefully preserved themselves the way they wanted to be remembered. What blend of emotions, after all, caused Ruth or Joel Barlow to keep these [...]