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Monthly Archives: December 2014
SUDDENLY, LAST YEAR
Yesterday I went out to the Rockaways for the first time since we put my dad’s ashes in the Atlantic. I went out there to do a couple of repairs in a friend’s bathroom. The trip took almost an hour … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, apartment living, blogging, change, death, Far Rockaway, freindship, Job loss, lawyers, Love, Manhttan, moving, perserverance, real estate, Williamsburg Brooklyn, work, writing
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2014 in review check out how my blog did last year. Not too shabby, I’d say! And log on for tomorrow’s post.
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 10,000 times in 2014. If it were a … Continue reading
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BOOKENDS
The job was a lot more than about books, it was about going through the remains of someone else’s life, but I’m going to keep it to the books as much as possible. The guy in charge wanted Danusia to … Continue reading
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Tagged apartment living, books, cleaning., hoarding, Housing Works Bookstore, James Jones, libraries, Mark Kurlansky, possesions, reading, the end of a life, work, writing
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INSTALLING THEMES
This weekend I did back to back bathroom sink/vanity installations, one for a friend from my writing class and one for the girlfriend of a friend of my writing teacher’s. Thank god for a friend of a friend, huh? I’ve … Continue reading
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Tagged apartment living, bathroom vanities, bathrrom sinks, copper and brass pipe, do-it-yourself, friendship, frustration, handyman work, IKEA, plumbing, PVC pipe, work
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THE $30 CHRISTMAS TREE
Every year Danusia and I start talking about when and where to get our Christmas tree. When we first moved in together in Williamsburg, there was no place to buy trees, and I found a place over a mile from … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, Christmas in New York, Christmas trees, humor, Love, price of trees, self-conciousness, subway, travel
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POSITIVELY EAST 4TH STREET
Sunday I got a message from my sometime boss Segundo, the super at my friends building where I work on occasion. He said he wanted me to work the next day, Monday, but when I got a chance to call … Continue reading
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Tagged aging, crossword puzzles, humor, ignorance, money, sex, viagra., work
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YES I CAN!
A couple of weeks ago a friend asked if I could sand and polyurethane his floor. I said sure I can. I did it a couple of times before, a very long time ago, in 1979 I think. Two floors, … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, apartment living, East Village, exercise, Floor refinishing, friendship, home improvement, humor, satisfaction, self-confidence, work
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WAKE ME UP BEFORE YOU GO
Wednesday night we went to Avery Fisher Hall to see Itzhak Perlman. It was a wonderful concert, and though I did yawn a few times, I stayed awake the whole performance. At my age that’s not always the case, even … Continue reading
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Tagged Avery Fisher Hall, Burroughs: The Movie, classical music, humor, Itzhak Perlman, Joy, Love, Memorial Hall, music, Pratt, William Burroughs
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IDENTITY CRISIS
Thursday night Allison Williams will star as Peter Pan in a new version of the classic on NBC TV, and it will probably spawn a lot of confusion on a lot of unsuspecting little boys. In 1963, when I was … Continue reading
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Tagged Alison Wiliams, Christopher Walken, confusion, Cyril Ritchard, entertainment, Mary Martin, Noel Coward, Peter Pan, sexual identitiy, sexuality, TV
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