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Monday, February 28, 2022

A Dozen Roses for New Jersey

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'Tis the cold late afternoon of the last day of the cruelest month of the year. (Sorry, T.S. Eliot, you were always wrong about that.) A...
Monday, February 14, 2022

A Valentine for New York City

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I captured the image above while sitting in the back seat of a New Jersey Transit bus, stuck in traffic on the NJ Turnpike, during the morni...
Sunday, January 30, 2022

2 Poems: Experiments in Creativity for Fun, Not Profit

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Ghosts playing chess in New York City   Poetry is a monetarily thankless pursuit. This past weekend in 1845 the New York Evening Mirror publ...
Friday, January 21, 2022

Using 6 Words (and an Image) to Tell a Story

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Sunset, facing East, reflecting off Queens. I'm fascinated by six-word stories. (I consider hyphenated modifiers two words.)  Entire web...
Saturday, January 8, 2022

I Can Be a Hero...

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On exhibit at Fotografiska NY in 2020: Ellen von Unwerth's photo of David Bowie and Kate Moss. ... Just for one day. Have you ever had a...
Saturday, January 1, 2022

Enzo the Sloth Is the Artist We Need in 2022

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A sloth painted this. Upside down, on his back, holding a brush between two toes. One grown daughter had ordered this painting by Enzo the S...
Saturday, December 25, 2021

12 Days of Christmas: Paterson

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On the way home from visiting Mom, I often stop off along Route 80 to visit the Garret Mountain overlook of Paterson, NJ. On Halloween this ...
Friday, December 24, 2021

12 Days of Christmas: Waterloo Village

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This Christmas Eve I’m thankful for the people who inspire and encourage me. One group I belong to, the virtual Black Glass Gallery , is a s...
Thursday, December 23, 2021

12 Days of Christmas: Weehawken via NJ Transit

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The view from Weehawken (from top) in May, July, October, December. On Thursday, 84 years ago today (just weeks before what would be my moth...