A lambent light flickering in the sky as I emerge from the subway station on CPW and 86th. It is, peculiarly, not offset by the primal effulgence of the city that although familiar incurs a vestigial (more…)
Forgetting how to be happy
It came to me, while walking home in one of our most recent snowstorms that appear to have become sine qua non for New York. The epiphany. I was closer to Athens, Greece, than I ever had been, despite (more…)
That’s how the light gets in
To begin with, for all the evident, timeless reasons countless people from all over the world and from all walks of life have flocked to America's shores, land borders and airports: because it is (more…)
A.I. Sex: It’s Complicated, Too (NSFW)
The Glass Wall, 50 years after JFK
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When residing in the U.S., an aspiring but not yet permanent resident, the first crucial step to acquiring (more…)