March in New York

I met friends and we took the subway to Grand Central. As we got closer and closer, more and more people had signs with them. One of us had heard there was an entrance to the march there, and we didn’t have to go all the way to the UN, which was the official beginning. We […]

Theater

Instead of going to the train home, I went to T Tower. I was having another bout of “This can’t be happening,” this time the source of the flare-up was reading that DT’s hand would rest on the Lincoln Bible at the inauguration. He lives in a tower, at the top, just like the Grinch. Why […]

Robert E. Lee Day

To have serpentlike qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish. To have dovelike without serpentlike qualities is to be sentimental, anemic, and aimless. We must combine strongly marked antitheses. ― Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love Trump’s not a perfect man, by any means. He kind of reminds me of my […]

Great

I read somewhere that this is the most depressing week of the year. This fact is unknown to everyone I met yesterday, who chatted happily about their recent travels to Asia and California, about how they love snow, about how beautiful it was, how they never get cold, actually. I liked the “beautiful snow” business, […]