If you haven’t already voted in the mid-term election, there’s still time to cast your ballot! But read this first. I read it on the train ride home and was appropriately fired up when I reached my polling station. The fire fizzled a little when I approached my voting table and saw the same inept …
Tag: Politics
Atlantic Antics
I love this photo. It’s of us shaking hands with New York State Senator Charles Schumer at the Atlantic Antics street festival in Brooklyn a couple years ago. Schumer and his entourage waded through the crowds, and we encountered them somewhere between Junior’s Cheesecake Eating Contest and one of the roasted corn stands along Atlantic …
Memories & Conflict
I have a distinct memory from my childhood of my Dad wearing a gold necklace with a small golden cedar tree hanging from it. I remember him telling me that the tree was the national emblem of Lebanon, where my parents had lived in the 1970’s as American expats before I was born. When I …
Alien Nation
For this entry I decided it would be apt to borrow the title of John Cassidy’s Talk Of The Town piece from last week’s issue of the New Yorker. All over the country there have been rallies, protests, and marches for immigrants’ rights. Since I work near City Hall, all afternoon I listened through my …