Seasonal Change in Central Park

Took a bike ride through the park yesterday. Spent time at the Mall reading friends' work. Looking around seeing the park switching it's window dressing over to toasty Halloween orange, yellow & brown, I thought about seasonal change and how it reassures us there is a cycle to every living thing and for a certain period and time we all get to renew ourselves and we should never waste a season. Get a warm coat, walk around, you'll see wonderous things.


I've written a memoir about growing up in the 1960s in a Manhattan working class neighborhood called, "Yorkville: Stoops to Nuts." There are 42 linked stories with many old and new photographs. If you been following my work for the last three years, or just started, and you enjoy what you read and see, please tell your friends I am looking for an agent to help me sell this book to a publishing company. Thank you.

October Snow & The 59th Street Bridge

On this last day of the month, I thank everyone who has been reading my stuff and looking at my pictures for the past three years. I began my blog,“Yorkville: Stoops to Nuts,” in the Beach Haven Library on Long Beach Island in October 2008. The librarian kept kicking me off the computer every half hour, and I had to put my name on a list again to use the computer for another half hour even though there were three computers and no one but me was using any of them. I love librarians but not nearly as much as I love nuns.

To acknowledge the pleasure I get from writing about the city I love and in particular the Yorkville neighborhood, I’m putting October snow storm pix up along with pictures of my favorite bridge on earth, a hearty tea drinker, a Halloween shot and a shot of the Beach Haven Library to offset the wintry weather.

Thank you, for telling me you enjoy my work.  My job as a kid was to make my mother laugh.  She’s gone now, so all of you are my present targets.  It’s my job. I love it.