54, Hardly Anything, A Trifle.

Anecdote:

While waiting for my bagel, I saw across the street the awning said, “CROWN HIGHTS BEAUTY SUPPLY.”  So much is so homemade here, so shabby, it’s lovely.

Humor:

(from an email someone sent me in 2007, that classic year for snowman jokes)

What did one snowman say to another?

Do you smell carrots?

Something beautiful:

Florence