Raising “Little Citizens of the World”
Photo credit: NYRRC This weekend, we strolled down to the end of our block with Callum and Rory and watched the world stream by. It was the 40th running of the New York City Marathon, and 4th avenue,...
View ArticleThe Start of the Snow
This was the view outside our front door yesterday morning. Now there’s lots more of the white stuff!
View ArticleNYC “in Miniature”.. sort of
The Sandpit from Sam O'Hare on Vimeo. This video, at first, appears to be using a miniature set, but, then, you see that it’s real. Very cool. (via @KBAndersen)
View ArticleCoining a term: Signal Surfing
Signal surfing: the act of making your way across NYC (or any city w/grid system), plotting your course based upon the traffic signals that happen to go your way. For example, you gradually make your...
View ArticleHappy Earth Day!
Photo courtesy Shutterstock Earlier this week, my son came home from kindergarten and asked if we could start recycling. I almost laughed. We live in an area where there’s no curbside recycling. I even...
View ArticleTen Years
View from the World Trade Center Ten years later, I understand the impulse of folks like Liz who would rather not think about that terrible day, and the ones that followed. Those days when the acrid...
View ArticleEmails From September 2001
Following, emails and photos I sent to family members in the days and weeks after the attacks of September 11, 2001. From pparker@reporters.net Tue Sep 11 09:00:43 2001 Importance: High X-eGroups-From:...
View ArticleSeeing The Beauty Around You
One of the joys of living in New York was the people watching. Maybe you try to be subtle about it, but, if you’re not looking at the masses of people you pass every day — wondering about where they’re...
View ArticleLiving Simply: Being Happy With Less
Behind all this back-to-nature, recycling, renovated-school-bus, simple living philosophizing that I do on this blog is a simple desire: to focus on the right things, to be happy. And, of course, to...
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