Parkchester, Celebrate Me Home My hometown? Like many of us I guess I can claim more than one – born in Charleston, SC but bred in the Bronx with idyllic summers spent at our family-run hotel in the Catskills. (See My Heart Remembers My Grandmother’s Hotel, The Troubadour, Hotel Kittens, The Cat and the Forshpeiz, and My Game Mother)…
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Suprise Me
Parkchester, Celebrate Me Home
Prompted By My Hometown
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Parkchester, Celebrate Me Home My hometown? Like many of us I guess I can claim more than one – born in Charleston, SC but bred in the Bronx with idyllic summers spent at our family-run hotel in the Catskills. (See My Heart Remembers My Grandmother’s Hotel, The Troubadour, Hotel Kittens, The Cat and the Forshpeiz, and My Game Mother)…
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How to Use a Drill
Prompted By Some Assembly Required
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Now, I remember why I hate Ikea.
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Across the Years and Channels
Prompted By What Are You Bingeing?
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In no particular order: Schitt’s Creek (laugh riot) Sanditon (disappointing) The Life Ahead Defending Jacob (shot locally around Boston) The Morning Show Never Have I Ever (hats off to Suzy’s son) Hamilton (better than live) The Queen’s Gambit (totally engaging, a true binge) The Crown (4th season, bulimia reigns supreme) Broadchurch (Olivia Coleman, before she’s…
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The End of the World, part two
Prompted By 9/11 Twenty Years Later
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In the last eighteen months, there have been so many tragedies that I couldn't even say which was the worst.
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Some bunch of kids, huh?
Prompted By Group Photos
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I especially like this photo of my aunt because it captures her sweetness.
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Nu? So It’s Christmas
Prompted By Holidaze
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While I enjoyed talking about eight days of presents, what I didn't talk about was how many of my gifts were practical things, like, oh, socks, for example.
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Salud y Paz
Prompted By War
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We asked what they needed most and they requested a transportation vehicle. Not an ambulance—that would be too much of a target.
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Turning 40
Prompted By Special Birthdays
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As I made the ascent, I took one bite of apple at a time and challenged myself to see how long I could keep each bite in my mouth before swallowing.
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Bike Race Coverage – the Dark Ages
Prompted By That Was Then, This Is Now
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Back in my day, bicycles had two wheels, no chain, no pedals, no brakes and, dammit, I was happy to have one…. Oh wait, that’s not true … But media coverage of pro cycling was just as primitive as that first push-bicycle, known as a “dandy horse,” back in the 19th century. Back before the…
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Body Snatchers
Prompted By Lost in Space
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Could someone do that, steal who you were, and why would they do that?
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