I am a writer and an editor. For life-blood money, I am a medical manuscript editor, editing articles for medical journals, and for pleasure and less money, I am also an editor of other writers' stories. I founded and managed an online literary journal about memoir, called Run to the Roundhouse, Nellie, which is no longer publishing; I previously edited the print journal, Lifeboat: A Journal of Memoir. I lived in NYC for many years, and on the Bowery from 1978 to 1991. Now I live in Maine.
Isn’t it fitting to think of Wordsworth when raising a baby? “Surprised by joy—impatient as the Wind”—best to cut the poem there. He authored so many other polished pieces about childhood and how the mind changes when growing up and old, crowned by the great koan-like first line of The Immortality Ode, “The child is […]
Flushing Ave. on the M The train stops and the doors open, except one door panel is cut out (locked closed, to prevent it from opening). A tall, skinny, black dude on the platform tries to board the train and, wham! He walks right into the closed panel. He steps back and catches his breath. “Whoa…,” just […]
In the early 1960s, as a recently married City College professor the closest I’d come to the Mafia was in movies and newspaper articles. Back then, New York City was rocked by Mafia scandals as investigations revealed that the police and other municipal unions were cooperating with mobsters in numbers rackets, loan sharking, business shakedowns, […]
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