We've been lucky with the weather in NYC this September. Many bright, warm days The aftermath of the powerful hurricane…
OK - so this image is misleading. My photo app tells me this is from last year when - on…
Before decamping to Brooklyn for the month I saw this on a utility box on Riverside Drive. Someone had gone…
One Last week IntrepidEd News published another of my pieces. This one is about how schools are on the front…
If you are in New York City and looking for a outing here's a suggestion: Wave Hill Garden in the…
The third destination of our Met Museum art extravaganza was Beyond the Light - Identity and Place in Nineteenth-Century Danish…
A wander crosstown to the Met with a destination. Or rather three. The first - Water Memories - explores water’s significance…
I've been thinking about how we need to stop using the word "gender" to refer to people and why we…
Raw, cold, and damp but it's still good to get out. Thanks to the ongoing lurgy there are no social…
The sun shining ... just there in the sky like a force-ripe orange That striking image is from Samuel Selvon's…
I am always a bit astonished when I see tRump signs at people's houses. And I ask myself: "Who are…
Eighty years ago today - on January 26th, 1939 - the poet W.H.Auden - accompanied by his friend and sometime…
A few November snowflakes and the hits on my all-time most-read post start climbing the "Most Read This Week" list.…
The temperature's rising. Time to think about eating outside and settling in at a sidewalk cafe to watch the world…
Subway Rush Hour by Langston Hughes Mingled breath and smell so close mingled black and white so near no room…