A Tale of Two Fourths

As a kid, I used to look up into an inky sky and watch fireworks explode over my neighborhood. This was the 70s. There were no town-funded displays, it was the family down the block whose Dad knew a guy who knew a guy. The backyards weren’t yet fenced off and  the street was one,…

New York Love Song

September 12. Yesterday left me drained, though I didn’t quite realize it until I sat down to write this.  ‘Where were you’ posts, tributes, news stories.  Photos of those gorgeous beams of light that shine upward and onward, like the city itself.  In Copenhagen yesterday, it was a gray and rainy day, nothing of the…