Tag Archives: humor

LEARN TO DRIVE

Posted on September 19, 2015 by xaviertrevino

Tuesday I had my first driving lesson at the Chinatown driving school. I went to the office, where the office manager directed me to Forsythe Street where the teacher would be waiting in a red car. I found the car, … Continue reading →

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BACKSCRATCH FEVER

Posted on September 8, 2015 by xaviertrevino

Do you ever get an itch right in the middle of your back that just can’t be reached? Of course you do. We all do. Sometimes it seems that the itch is always there, annoyingly teasing, irresistibly out of reach. … Continue reading →

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AVOCADO MANIA

Posted on September 6, 2015 by xaviertrevino

The avocados have been wonderful all summer. That is until the past two weeks. And that’s strange, because late August and early September is supposed to be peak avocado season, and just about every avocado I’ve bought in the past … Continue reading →

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SOLE PROPRIETOR

Posted on September 1, 2015 by xaviertrevino

My friend Tommy the painter told me I should do it a while ago, maybe last year. But me being me, it took some time to get there. It makes sense if you are going to work for yourself you … Continue reading →

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HAVE PUMP, WILL TRAVEL

Posted on August 25, 2015 by xaviertrevino

When we moved here to Harlem last year Danusia bought a bike right away. It was a used ten-speed, probably 40 or so years old that she bought from a bike shop on Amsterdam Avenue up a ways in Washington … Continue reading →

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AIR CONDITIONING

Posted on August 22, 2015 by xaviertrevino

A couple of weeks ago I did a job for a fairly famous young photographer who lives and works in a studio downtown. I knew he was a photographer and had heard he was well known, but to me he … Continue reading →

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HUNTING THE FLEA

Posted on August 15, 2015 by xaviertrevino

Only in New York can you go from hunting the whale to hunting the flea in a week. Actually, the flea hunt started some time ago, if you read this blog you’ll know about it, if you don’t here’s a … Continue reading →

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HUNTING THE WHALE

Posted on August 9, 2015 by xaviertrevino

I spent Monday and Tuesday nights on Nantucket last week. I wouldn’t have been able to do that if it hadn’t been for my lovely wife, Danusia. She’d been asked to perform one of her stories at a MOTH Main … Continue reading →

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TO FLEA OR NOT TO FLEA

Posted on July 30, 2015 by xaviertrevino

That is the question. We did some cat sitting in the Rockaways a few weeks ago, and we came back to Harlem with some little unwelcome guests in tow. Fleas. I remember when we were there, at my friend’s cottage … Continue reading →

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WHERE’S THE W.C.?

Posted on July 25, 2015 by xaviertrevino

If you are a regular reader of this blog you know I have BPH, or benign prostatic hyperplasia. That means that for me, the location of the exits in a theater is not as important as the location of the … Continue reading →

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