New Zealand 2014

Almost a year after my car got destroyed in a Hurricane Sandy-related incident, I was back…

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Personal Identification Number

Personal Identification Crisis

PayPal told me to enter my four-digit security code “one digit at a time.” How else…

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A Touch of Dee

3: 148th Street/Harlem, Manhattan

Tuesday, November 15, 2011 I read a bit of that Quran, but I didn’t get far.…

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Leprechaun

Kids Say the Darndest

Since February, I’ve been teaching circus skills to kids on the road. Sometimes they say funny…

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Quran explanation

S: Franklin Avenue, Brooklyn

Thursday, August 11, 2011 Boy if I thought Damaso changing his order was “cheating” on the…

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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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Two blow dryers

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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frustration

Take My Sheets… Please!

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

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