Archive for the 'children' Category
My 6-year-old son, Teak, was walking with my wife and came across a school friend, Ella, on the corner of 84th and Amsterdam. Ella is in front of him and turns around with a smile.
Ella: “Teak, you are so weird!” She faced ahead once more.
My wife Karen’s thought-cloud: Uh, oh. What did he do now?
Ella, [...]
Filed under: Manhattan, Upper West Side, children, parenting | 4 Comments
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 [...]
Filed under: 9/11, Upper West Side, children | 1 Comment
The Cowboy Store in Kerrville is gone.
Karen had agreed to accompany me on my search for a pearl snap shirt, a semi-annual ritual during our summer and Christmas vacations to Kerrville, her hometown, from New York City, mine, and where we live now.
I became somewhat taken with this style of shirt upon seeing it worn [...]
Filed under: Crider's, Kerrville, Texas, Upper West Side, children, pearl snap shirts | 1 Comment
Sleep well, my little dolphin
Quarter past three in the morning, and the lightning and thunder were becoming more pronounced.
The front was moving through quickly. Though thunderstorms in Manhattan had always lulled me to sleep because of the comforting dissonance of fierce natural conditions unsuccessfully buffeting against whatever concrete bunker of an apartment I’d lived in, I had been awake [...]
Filed under: Upper West Side, children, parenting | 1 Comment
Our youth / haiku
Squealing children run
Through effervescent sprinklers.
(Parents read the Times.)
photo: flumpsicle
Filed under: River Run Playground, Riverside Park, children, parenting | 1 Comment
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