Bennett’s First Birthday [Conclusion]

10Oct09

The raindrops pattered onto the clear plastic cupcake containers and sounded like tiny timpani.
Though partially protected at the bottom of the two bags, the rhythmic drumbeat augmented my steps, moving up Columbus Avenue and around 83rd Street, heading west. Fifty feet to my left, the red painted façade of Engine Company 74 glistened with silver [...]

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Bennett’s First Birthday [Part 2]

11Sep09

After floating in the Guadalupe River near Hunt, Texas, looking for arrowheads at the bottom of the shallow water, and while eating burgers at Fuddrucker’s in Kerrville, my three sons were to return to their city of eight million in less than a week.
We live on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, where in our zip code [...]

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