A few years back I set off to travel the world. The journey enabled me to swim with Amazonian pink dolphins, summit the highest peak on the African continent, and sail below the Antarctica circle. The 1 1/2 year trip netted me a worldwide troop of friends and stories out the ying-yang. Currently I live in New York City and have decided to write about the energetic madness that occurs here on a daily basis.
All I knew about Coney Island before I moved to New York City is that it used to be “the” vacation spot for New Yorkers in the 1920’s. Since those glory days the neighborhood has gone through a long period of decline.
After hanging out Saturday all day on the southern most part of Brooklyn I [...]
Oh my! We all saw it coming. The Nuge, Wendy, and I have been talking about this for months. How could we have procrastinated like this? How could we have been so incredibly lazy? How could we have possibly not bought an air conditioner before this heatwave rolled in? How have we survived the last [...]
Below is the first guest post of my friend Wendy Brown. Wendy teaches the 9th grade at a Brooklyn high school–her classes are ethnically and economically diverse. However, the vast majority of her students fall into the economic category society would describe as “working poor.”
In New York–as well as nationwide–the Sean Bell case is major [...]
