I remember very well an “aha” moment I had once in the underground tunnels of New York City. I was sitting on the train like I had one million times before, but this time I looked around me because, sometimes in New York, you can forget to look. So I’m looking, and the scene grabs […]
August 18, 2010
Have I told you how happy I am to see you? I admit, when I first saw the crawling thing from the corner of my eye, I shriveled back in disgust. ‘Not another one’, I thought to myself. I had cleaned all the dirty dishes, taken out the trash, closed the windows… what more could […]
July 12, 2010
This morning I made my usual 10-minute trek to the N train station and hiked up two hefty flights of stairs to get to the above ground platform. Being the last stop on the line, there are usually one or two air conditioned, empty trains parked and waiting. This is especially nice in the summer […]
July 8, 2010
In my freshman year at Transylvania University – I’ll give you a minute to get the Dracula jokes out of your system…. ok, good? Good - I took a mandatory University 101 class that was to prepare us for how enormously our lives would change. The idea that a course could prepare us for the […]
May 30, 2011
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