Here is the first verse of the song A Few of My Favorite Things: Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens Brown paper packages tied up with strings These are a few of my favorite things The song is from The Sound of Music. I have never seen …
I have written previously about the people in the title division of the New York State DMV. It is no longer cool to make jokes about Polish people, Italians, people with physical disabilities, people with learning differences, Black people, Asians, Hispanics, gay and transgender people, Jews or Irish people. It is still OK, but not …
Imagine a Twilight Zone episode that occurs in a mobile home park. There is the usual cast of characters. The evil park owner who cares about nothing but money (think oil executives in The Wages of Fear); The busybody who is in everyone’s business; the town drunk; the conspiracy theorist who get his news from …
Follow link to Ep;phany Magazine. If you need a tie-in to the mobile home park business, the bonds that Kumar traded were backed by loans secured by the souls of manufactured housing folk.
Here’s a recent conversation between me and an IT rep from Rent Manager: It’s a system-wide problem. We are working to correct it. Can you give me an ETA? We are working to fix the problem. Can you give me a ballpark estimate? It will be fixed quickly. Could you give me your best estimate …
Here’s a text conversation I recently had with a guy who scraps homes in my park in central New York. A very good tenant just moved out of a park-owned home and bought another home in the same park. The home they moved out of is a crappy 1978 single-wide with a leak nobody can …
As the years go by, you converse with fewer voices. Almost a decade ago, I sat in the now-defunct Queen Diner in Dryden, NY with Dee Dee, the manager of my park in central New York and her now-ex-husband, Ben. We were going to pay the waitress, and Ben and I each had a ten-dollar …
This does not look like someplace where history was made: That is the Androscoggin Bank Colisée. It is where the Maine Nordiques play. The Nordiques are a team in the North American Hockey League, which is a USA-sanctioned Tier II junior hockey league. The Colisée is in a crappy section of Lewiston which is, quite …
Here’s the only canned tomato sauce recipe you will ever need: 2 cans (28 oz each) peeled plum tomatoes with juice 4 cloves garlic, peeled and crushed 1 tbsp kosher salt or sea salt 2 tbsp sugar 6 tbsp (3 oz) extra virgin olive oil ½ c (packed) fresh basil Boil and stir, crushing the …
At his worst, George Seferis was a low-rent T.S. Eliot. You can see that in passages like this: This is a way of thinking, a wayTo begin to speak of things that you confessuneasily, at times when you can’t hold back, to a friendwho escaped secretly and bringsword from home and from the companions,and you …