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This is a visual poem by the poet Denise Duhamel . Denise is married to the poet Nick Carbo (whose cool poetry blog is here ). I met Denise ...

Last year on this date I posted about aging, and how a daughter turning ten made me feel old. Older than turning 39 or 40 or whatever. Well,...

Welcome to the third installment of "Tattoosday". They get better with age. First a quick recap of the week: 8/7 : Interesting tid...

My Aunt Lee dropped these my way a few weeks back, and they have been sitting on my desktop, just waiting to be posted. Worth some chuckles....

......a wild story by Hari Kunzru called "Magda Mandela" .

So, Dear Old Dad has his own blog here , but Mom, across the Pacific, hasn't entered the blogosphere. However, she sent me a picture tha...

I read On the Road and liked it. Didn't adore it to pieces, but still recognized it as innovative, brilliant at times, and an important...

It's been a while since I threw out a Friday Five, so here we go. Play along at home, if you like. For those of you new to this, here ar...

So, I just read "The Confidence Decoy" by Ann Beattie in the November 27, 2006 issue of The New Yorker. I went to link it because ...

Those Poetry in Motion posters, they do. Earlier today I posted the Whitman. Here is the other one New Yorkers will be reading for the next ...

TO YOU STRANGER! If you, passing, meet me, and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak...

Read " Playdate " by Kate Walbert in the March 26, 2007 issue. A good New York parenting story. Also, somehow ended up with the No...

There are mysteries in life that some of us will never solve. I found this on the subway platform at East 68th Street on the 6 line last...

Of course I haven't tried to get home yet..... But at 5:30 am I was woken up by a spectacular display of thunder and lightning. I was du...

There's been a lot of buzz since the beginning of the year about the problem beekeepers are having with a mysterious "colony collap...

I started this in June, and it was left unfinished. So, two months later, let me try and wrap this up. In fact, it seems fitting to run it o...

Just passed Tyra Banks on the street, walking with her security detail. I thought about approaching her to ask if she wanted to feel my brea...

7/31 : Last Tattoosday, the inaugural day, was a bust. First exhibitor Sephora was thrilled with her initial post and suggested I add some o...