Monthly Archives: December 2023

Best Christmas Decoration 2018

December 20, 2023 – 3:26 am

Written 2018 I’ve been working hard labor this week. Like an inmate cracking rocks. Every night I returned to the small house of the Greenwich estate and chase down three aspirins with a little vodka. My body was as weak as Superman encased in a igloo of kryptonite and I wish I could spent the […]

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December 19, 1978 – East Village – Journal Entry

December 18, 2023 – 7:46 pm

Alice left 256 early to catch a morning flight to West Virginia. We have lived at 256 East 10th since August. I carry her heavy blue bag down to the street corner. It’s not too cold and she wore a long green Mormon dress, a distressed purple sweater, and her favorite high-heeled boots. I want […]

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Mad Rain

December 18, 2023 – 2:23 pm

In 2017 I was driving to Umphang a remote mountain town on the Thai Burma Border. Monsoons shrouded the peaks and created a a river torrent blocking the road. An intrepid pick up driver attempted a crossing and was swept away a hundred yards. We rescued him and then the truck was submerged by the […]

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Human Contact Inbound to West 4th Street

December 18, 2023 – 2:12 pm

Thursday morning I leave 387 @ 11:21 bound for the Village. It was a sunny and unseasonably warm autumn day. I encountered no one on the street. The B54 was five stops away and I set off afoot towards Jay Street – Metro Tech, kicking fallen leaves covering in the gutter. At North Portland a […]

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The Last View Of The Titanic

December 18, 2023 – 9:04 am

HMS Titanic departed from Southampton on April 10, 1912. The massive ship stopped at Cherbourg to pick up 274 more passengers and drop 24. The next day the Titanic reached Cork, Ireland, where over a hundred passengers boarded the liner and seven departed. One was Father Francis Browne, a Jesuit trainee, who snapped the known […]

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