Shadows & Light

This has been a busy week! On Tuesday I went to Perth Amboy, on the New Jersey coast near Staten Island. A friend on Flickr had told me abou...

You know that check I was complaining about in yesterday's post? Well, it arrived yesterday afternoon. Mailed on the 13th, delivered on ...

There is a curious torture associated with waiting for something to arrive in the mail. I've been waiting for almost two weeks now, and ...

Sometimes I fear that reason, as a goal of society and humanity, is dying. I'm not a philosopher or a student of philosophy, so I'm ...

I spent this morning giving a bath to my four-legged pals, Ernie and Ruby. They're very clean dogs, usually, since they spend all their ...

Yesterday morning I took the train into the city and went out to Brighton Beach, in Brooklyn. I'd never been there, and I wanted to chec...

I'm reading Adam Gopnik's book "Through the Children's Gate," about his return with his family to New York from Paris ...