Woodcleft Canal
Freeport, Long Island. It’s in Nassau Country, the closest county on Long Island to New York city. I grew up in the city … in Queens, which is a borough of New York. Each of New York’s boroughs has its...
View ArticleNeighborhoods
People are surprised when I tell them that this town with its oak woods, huge plots of land, picket fences and farms reminds me of the neighborhood in which I grew up. I was raised in the middle of...
View ArticleNeighborhoods, Part 2
Continued from Neighborhoods Other girls lived nearby but were not eligible to join our group. Tribal affiliation was accounted block by block. You belonged to the group of kids whose block you shared....
View ArticleWhat universe is this?
When I was first married we lived in an apartment on the second floor of a building that was one of two identical brick buildings. We lived in apartment 2Q, at the far end of the hallway … a corner...
View ArticleBack to the Zone
When I was first married, we lived in an apartment on the second floor of a building at the end of a long hallway. It was in one of two identical buildings. We lived in apartment 2Q, a corner...
View ArticleToo much of a good thing? Richelle Mead’s Storm Born
Eugenie Markham — AKA Odile Dark Swan — fights creatures from the Otherworld for a living. She a shaman and she’s at the top of her game. It’s one Hell of a game she plays. Even so, she find it...
View ArticleA Palace in Queens: Loew’s Valencia
Growing up, my favorite theater was the Valencia in Jamaica. No mere movie theater, it was an experience, a Hollywood production its own right. Here with my brother Matthew, I first experienced the...
View ArticleSchool days: Boredom and Fear in Equal Measure
Childhood is a challenge. We romanticize childhood as a time of innocence and play, but childhood isn’t necessarily easy. Many of us struggled. We had problems at home we couldn’t or wouldn’t talk...
View ArticleWAITING TO GO HOME
I moved to New England 35 years ago. I don’t want to sound like a cliché, but it feels as if it was no more than few months ago. On some level, I think like a transplanted New Yorker. Yet I’ve lived up...
View ArticleA GLACIAL QUARTER
Someone suggested I dig through the couch cushions, my purse or the floor of my car and find a coin. See what year is engraved on it. Then, try to recollect what I was doing that year and write about...
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