Archive for November, 2008
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My downstairs neighbor Peter caught me by the arm outside the school yard and said, smiling, “My brothers and I used to beat up on each other all the time!” He had witnessed moments before, one hundred yards to the west, the sudden and rapid breakdown of a fairly routine and even civil walk to [...]
Filed under: Upper West Side, children, family | 2 Comments
I woke up quite upset on Thursday morning while in London. I had had a bad dream.
Waiting for the five hours’ difference between there and New York to pass, so that I could call the Lovely K once she dropped off the boys at school, I dialed her at 8:30 a.m. Eastern.
“I had a bad [...]
Filed under: Point O' Woods, dreams, marriage | 1 Comment
Over dinner…
Sitting in Chaat, a Bangladeshi eatery in Shoreditch, down a difficult-to-find Red Chapel Street, I am the only customer – they are booked for the night, all 16 seats of their 25’-square restaurant – but the coffee-colored skin lady welcomes me at 6:00 when she realizes it’s just me. Her first party is at 7:45, [...]
Filed under: Christianity, Jesus, Lesbianism, London, Transvestism, food, transgender | Leave a Comment
A writer’s limits
On the day that Mom and I were married, it had been raining. The men who were in Kerrville for our wedding all went and played golf in the rain that morning, and had more fun than success. The women did whatever women do on wedding days, which usually means lots of make-up, lots of [...]
Filed under: Kerrville, Texas, children, writing | Leave a Comment
The Singer
I heard faint singing, even though I had earbuds in from my iPhone on the downtown B train, headed for Herald Square.
I looked down, and there was a Chinese lady, about 70 years old I’d guess, reading sheet music inside plastic slip covers and a dull pink plastic floppy binder. The lyrics were in Mandarin [...]
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