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Sunday, May 29, 2022

Poem: 'The Andromeda Strain'

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It’s springtime, and I am my widowed mother’s caretaker.   In my boyhood home, during a rainstorm on a Saturday afternoon, I watch a movie D...
Tuesday, May 24, 2022

Short Story: 'The Prophets of Grand Central'

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“More people with white privilege are learning about racial dynamics and social justice terminologies than ever before. They are awakening t...
Saturday, May 7, 2022

Sorry I Haven't Written Lately - Happy Mother's Day!

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After last year's flurry of activity during National Poetry Month in April, I haven't posted on this blog lately. What a difference...
Sunday, April 3, 2022

What's in a Time Capsule?

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Top, from left, former mayors Ann Subrizi, Frank DeBari and Roger Lane join current Mayor Mike Putrino in unfurling and raising a 100th anni...
Saturday, March 12, 2022

2 New Books Inspired by New Jersey

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Author Fred Rossi reads from "Jersey Stories" last weekend at Halo Roasters in Springfield. Last weekend I stumbled into a book si...
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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...