Times Square | Times Square
Jan.07.2011
As my best friend, my son and I watched the ball in Times Square make its way toward signaling that infamous moment when all your hopes, dreams and aspirations to becoming a new and more perfect you.... in the first two days of the new year. I was poised before the television loudly acknowledging...
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Oct.07.2010
A VERY SHORT REPRIEVE/Part 4
Like a condemned man I've learned to savor my reprieves. To relish that moment of bliss before my misdeed is punished.
The criminal knows he'll be caught, but wants the champagne and dancing girls. As a kid I lied about my grades so my mother would let me go...
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Dec.31.2009
Weary with work and years, my father would never make it through to midnight and he would snore as the ball dropped, and on the floral sofa --- the one with the dog-chewed arms --- my mother would every year nudge him, there it is, look it’s happening, and he would roll his eyes open a crack,...
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Dec.19.2009
When I visited New York last October, I purchased two bars of soap in Walgreens Drug Store in Times Square. Funny, you might say, for a woman, on a trip to New York, to enter a common Drug Store and buy two bars of soap. Well, maybe it is, but the soap meant something to me, a memory of times gone...
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May.20.2009
THE HOTTEST SPOT IN TOWN
July '73, Times Square, New York...There's a recession on, but you can't tell by me. I've got a bar job-- twenty-seven bucks a night and all the goldfish I can eat. It's at the Hotel Diplomat, an SRO on 43rd. St. and Sixth Ave. We call it "the Roach Motel"...
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