A My Private Coney project Flash non-fiction, brief moments and old memories of a city and mother's emotional and physical real estate disappearing at the speed of heartbreak.
Gosh it makes me warm and tingly all over. Well, off to shop at KMart!
... but seriously folks. In my railing against the erosion of my city, I too must ask myself about my decisions of where I shop. More and more I am steering myself away from the bigger national chains and spending what little money I have at the local stores. And some of the small locally owned stores are thriving because lots of us are asking ourselves those hard questions.
So, if you can grab a meal at your local luncheonette verses that at a national chain, go ahead! The counter guy probably will give you extra and remember you the next time and the time after that and soon he'll remember your birthday, your ex-boyfriend, your mother, and that you love the bacon really crispy and the egg cream really sweet. When did that ever happen to you at a Quiznos or Uno's? Hmmm?
MY PRIVATE CONEY presents IT WAS HER NEW YORK, the short stories that accompany the work-in-progress video and photo collection of the same name (myprivateconey.com - media link - IT WAS HER NEW YORK). The stories and the media explore the tender rubble that holds both my mother, Florence's and New York's soul as one disappears into old age and the other into gentrification. All are real observations and/or experiences with very little tall-tale telling.
Except when it makes the story better.
Please visit myprivateconey.com for additional information and sample works.
Shopping Locally - This Week: Touch Of Grey Cafe
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*My friend and the owner of **Kenny’s Westside Pub**, **Sean Kenny** told
me recently that I need to check out a new plac...
the east end seaport museum auction
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The East End Seaport Museum Art Auction bidding ends tonight at 20h00,
today the 16th of February, 2021. A lovely little old railroad building
outlined in ...
Glorious
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Margaret, the immaturity shown by Donald Trump today was surpassed only by
the cluelessness shown by Ted Cruz. One is gone and soon to be forgotten
while t...
PHOTO GALLERY - PORTFOLIO #3 -
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NEW YORK IN THE 1990'S PHOTO GALLERY
- PORTFOLIO #3 -A selection of images from the New York in the 1990's Photo
Archives.
Please also see:
PORTFOLIO #1 ...
Notes on ‘Swindler & Son 2’
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This book came to me as if in a dream, playing itself out in front of me,
bit by bit, each day at the keyboard. Not so much something I wanted to say
as ...
NYC Pandemic Portrait
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Pandemic Portrait No. 129" x 12" acrylic on paper Prints in various sizes
available here.
The Night Shift - painting every day, after dark....Check in ev...
Waste
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This article in the Guardian begins, "On a damp and humid Thursday
afternoon Manhattan’s Union Square is looking sorry for itself. There’s
73,000 sq ft o...