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Hare Krishna Tree, Tompkins Square Park ----------------------------------------------- On Labor Day weekend 2021, I give my body to the ticks that live in the tall grass underneath the Hare Krishna tree and think, not freshly, of dying. It is the first clear morning in New York since the previous Saturday. Hurricane Ida has been steadily barreling through the Northeast and, after [...]
I’ve been so harried and have brain fog from mold illness. For months I had been having neurological issues and going through medical tests, including multiple MRIs and a spinal tap. Finally, when my doctor asked if where I lived could possibly have mold, something clicked. The old HVACS were indeed moldy (from 1960). After testing both myself and my [...]
I was going through some old family papers recently and chanced upon my father’s New York City peddler’s license. It is a document not just from another time, but also another world. He is wearing a tan Big Apple hat and a black shirt and stares straight at the camera, looking incredibly fresh and handsome. The address on the license [...]
