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Day 17, Somebody Get Me a Valium With a Michael Phelps Chaser
The story of young Beauregard Fritzen’s road to the Olympics is a bumpy one. On the boy’s eighth birthday Pocko, his turtle and only friend, was struck down by polio. At age twelve, Fritzen’s neighbor’s milkman was blinded in one … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Ben, Closing ceremonies, Gold Medal, Humor, London, Michael Phelps, NBC, New York City, olympic coverage, Olympics, television
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Evolution, It’s Not Just For Dogs With Gas
Some of you may recall I mentioned our family dog Pepper and his digestive issues in an earlier post. Poor Pepper. As a puppy he was sick all the time until the vet determined he was born without the ability … Continue reading
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Tagged agent, Blizzard, blogging, bravery, childhood memory, dog food, dogs, end of year, evolution, fear, gas, Humor, New Year, New York City, novel, old jewish man, puppy, raisins, scottish terrier, Snow, Tigger, writer, writing
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A Xmas Tale Involving Chopsticks And Twitter
At age twelve I had the extraordinary privilege of going to Japan with my parents. In Tokyo, wall-to-wall bodies filled the city. Huge billboards and traffic abounded. It felt familiar somehow, a combination of battling the crowds to get a … Continue reading
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Tagged Agents, Authors, childhood memory, Chopsticks, Christmas, Editors, Family, Hashtags, Humor, Japan, Japanese cuisine, Kyoto, New Year's Eve, New York City, Social Media, Times Square, Tokyo, Travel, Twitter, UK, West Yorkshire, Window Shopping, Writers, Xmas
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My Safari Through The Asphalt Jungle
No matter the love hate relationship I may have with Manhattan it is, and shall always be, an exquisite place to be a writer. A place that cries out to be observed and catalogued for future explorations into the funny, … Continue reading
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Tagged Autumn, childhood memory, children, graffiti, Humor, Manhattan, Nail Salons, New York City, observations, Paul Lind, Playground, Rat, Subway, traffic, urban blight, Urban Dweller, writer
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The Pied Piper I Ain’t
Somewhere, deep in the bowels of New York city, the roaches are teaching adult education classes to the mice and I thought you should know. A thousand years ago when I moved here, I knew full well I would have … Continue reading
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Tagged apartment, Humor, knight, Manhattan, mouse, New York City, New Yorker, roach, suburbanite, writer
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Are You A Professional Eavesdropper?
As a writer, I’m fairly certain I have an inalienable right to eavesdrop. At least that’s what I tell myself, and my mother if she asks, or that girl in the health food store giving me the evil eye. Yes, … Continue reading
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Tagged Eavesdrop, fame, Fiction, Humor, Manhattan, New York City, theater, writer, writing
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Madame Paradox 