Archive for April, 2010
Bouquet
I have seen things today. Like the man pictured below on 37th and Broadway at about 2:30 p.m., when I walked across the street to Starbucks. He was shouting, “Hi! Here I am! Hi!” On 82nd and West End Avenue, later this afternoon and strewn at the side of a pre-war building on the northwest […]
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A moment in the night
Last night I dreamed that one of my sons was missing. Someone watching another son had come back with him, and he had had a hurt finger and was smiling about it, but my other son was missing. I sprinted through the streets in running shoes, faster than I’d ever run. I came to a […]
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Doing ‘The Worm’ to a Polka
“Have a magical day,” was what you hear from cashiers in the hotel gift shop, ticket booth clerks at the various parks, and ride monitors as they check children’s height. It’s difficult not to at least lean toward obedience after 72 hours or so. My family’s six magical days at Disney World were indeed so, […]
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Tags: Disney World
My Love Affair with Motrin
With appreciation for Indexed.
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Tags: Disney World, Moleskine, Venn
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