Style & smile

Back on the Bar

In February, I left NYC and re-joined Circus of the Kids, a traveling program I’d worked…

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Painted N train

NQ: Astoria/Ditmars Boulevard, Queens

Tuesday, August 9, 2011 It’s been almost five months since our last trip, during which time…

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Roots Man

JEZ: Jamaica Center/Parsons Archer, Queens

Tuesday, March 29, 2011 We take the J because we both live on it, but it’s…

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The Good, the Fair, and the Right

Sometimes doing what’s fair doesn’t result in doing good. Smart people analyze how this counter-intuitive truth…

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Take My Sheets… Please!

I got some new sheets as a gift and decided to offer my old ones free…

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SIR Tottenville

SIR: Tottenville, Staten Island

Saturday, March 26, 2011 Holy end-of-the-line, Batman, Staten Island is really far away! Like, it’s another…

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Red Hmong

Vietnam 2007

Notes, photos, and video from visiting Vietnam in November 2007 with James. We booked a flight…

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Fried Fish Steam

2: Wakefield/241st Street, The Bronx

Thursday, March 24, 2011 We pull a last-minute switcheroo on our own plans to visit Harlem…

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Times Square NYC

NYC Trivia

After 9-11, there was a brief period during which the rest of the country liked New…

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Life in Links

Places I’ve been, stuff I’ve done. This is most of my life in links.   Now…

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