“When the steamship Rotterdam arrived at her pier in Hoboken yesterday there was a great scurrying about the ship by all of the stewards and the crew to find the sixty-four midgets that were aboard. They were bound for Coney Island, where they will take part in one of the shows to be presented this [...]
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Hoboken, 1904
Posted in Uncategorized on June 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Always
Posted in Film, Uncategorized on May 25, 2010 | 2 Comments »
“Is life always this hard? Or just when you’re a kid?” “Always.” – Leon, played by Jean Reno, answers 12-year-old Mathilda, played by Natalie Portman, in Luc Besson’s Leon: The Professional (1994)
Home
Posted in Uncategorized on May 18, 2010 | 2 Comments »
“Home is where the people you love are. You can live anywhere, so don’t be afraid of change. This is just the place that we live. It’s a really nice place. We’re very privileged, we don’t take it for granted. But if we lived in the apartment I grew up in — which was like [...]
Thank You
Posted in Uncategorized on April 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Poetry
Posted in Uncategorized on April 18, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A poignant find from the Swap Shop at the Transfer Station
How to Make a Stone Chessboard
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Chess, Lowe's on October 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am not the handiest person, but do like to putter around, and recently, while thinking about slate roofs, I got an idea for a chessboard made with slate squares. I couldn’t find any stone squares of the right size on the Web, but while wandering around Lowe’s, I stumbled into the tile department and [...]
It’s Not Polite
Posted in Uncategorized on May 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.” – Variously said to be an old Chinese proverb, a saying inside a fortune cookie, found in a box of ginger snaps, or done in needlepoint on a pillow.
All the Other Ages
Posted in Uncategorized on May 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.” – Madeleine L’Engle, quoted in The New York Times in 1985
On Waiting
Posted in Uncategorized on April 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“I can be reduced to tears by bureaucracy. Time-wasting is my greatest phobia and being in a queue to speak to someone about a mobile phone or something is my idea of hell. There is too much else I could be doing. Very often in those situations I will burst into tears. What makes it [...]
Miss Robinson (1965)
Posted in Uncategorized on April 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The room is gray. The day is gray. She sits that way. The Bible, you say? – Written during an upstate New York winter, in the old Hall of Languages at Syracuse University, during Bob Hastings’ English class and a lecture on the Old Testament, as my mind wandered to a classmate.
