we all fall down

ring around the rosy pocket full of posies ashes ashes we all fall down I felt such depression last week. I had forgotten how heavy it is. Though I was there to see and be with kind and generous people, for some reason it was there that the weight collapsed on me. Sometimes it does. […]

dub/tub

Rub a dub dub Three men in a tub The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker Nursery rhymes are important because rhyme is important. Human language developed rhyme (most likely) because it helped us learn to associate one thing with another, to give us a sort of mental jingle to remember. For so many years, […]

Small Animals

I thought Sardi’s was a tourist trap. And I thought I could not afford it. My way of going to see Broadway shows has always been to eat a slice of pizza beforehand, because after paying for a ticket that is all that seems prudent. I happened to be meeting a friend in Times Square, […]

So Educated

I read online that Spike Lee was having people over because Prince had died. I found my way over and there were a bunch of people standing around, slowly closing the street like an artery plaquing. People had cameras, there were trucks with satellites on them, and one big light. I had kind of thought […]