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Brighton Beach 1963 Facing the back of our apartment is the alley. Street games spill over into it, and we like to make up new ones: “Bet you can’t hit the wire with the ball.” Sometimes the super yells at us. There are broken bottles and smells from garbage cans. But the alley is our backyard— private, hidden from grown-up eyes. [...]
Every other Friday — when I was six to seven years old — my Uncle Lou would pick me up from school to take me to my dad’s for the weekend. He would wait in the parking lot of my Montessori elementary school in Stamford, Connecticut, idling in his Lincoln sedan, as though he were my elderly chauffeur, emerging once [...]
It was 10:33 p.m. on a Monday night in 2016. I had just received an email saying that my long-awaited queen-sized bed frame from Amazon had arrived and was waiting in the package delivery room directly above my basement-level East Village apartment. I was dead tired after only a few hours of sleep the previous night and about to go [...]
I’ve had a lot of bad things happen in my life—but also so many good. I’ve visited places I never want to remember and others I’ll never forget. My first trip to the Circus Circus Hotel in Las Vegas? Unforgettable. A hotel with an indoor circus? For a kid, that was magic. And my grandfather’s backyard in the Dominican Republic, [...]
