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athingirl · 13 hours
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Life On The Train
  Number 6 Train  11:00 a.m.   I’m on my way to Rivington Street way downtown. It’s one of the oldest neighborhoods in the city that has yet to be gentrified. It looks as if it’s truly from another era making you wonder how it has escaped the wrecking ball this long.  At Bleeker Street I’ll change for the F Train one stop.  The 6 is running smoothly since it’s past rush hour so it has a peaceful,…
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athingirl · 4 days
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Holy Shamoley
We’re about to embark on what Christians call Holy Week.  I’m not a practicing Catholic anymore but still remember its drumroll before Easter Sunday.  My mother though hardly a role model, still took it very seriously. It was my first lesson in what you see isn’t exactly what you get. But be that as it may, I too took it seriously not understanding how a father could do that to his son.  “To save…
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athingirl · 8 days
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Susannah's Spring, Summer Reading List...2024
I’ll start with our eminent United States Capitol, beginning with a favorite book of mine I’ve read many times. The American Spirit: Who We Are And What We Stand For…David McCullough (2017)   He so eloquently reminds us of the Capitol’s sanctity, our very own Notre Dame standing majestically in our nations’s capital. Too many Americans think of it as just another building. After reading his A…
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athingirl · 11 days
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Words Seldom Used
  I am very seduced by the English language.  Words wooing from the page. A writer whose name escapes me said, some are simply meant to stay there. In other words, unless you’re an English Lord in the 18th century, they’re longer used in casual conversation.  Postprandial is one. An adjective…what happens after mealtime…a post repast. What one does afterwards.   Do the men head to the library for…
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athingirl · 15 days
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Life On The Train
    Stalled on the Number 5   I’m seated with a herd of other pissed off passengers as we hear the conductor say for the 20th time, sorry for the delay, we’ll be moving shortly.  We’re stuck in-between stations so there’s no option to run. Being claustrophobic, this isn’t my finest moment, but as my late friend Jackie would say...when you get lemons, make lemonade, so hence, on a Panera napkin…
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athingirl · 17 days
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As I Was Saying To Benjamin The Pit
   French women can be bad news. Not all of course, like Twiggy Howell for instance, but Benjamin hasn’t had the pleasure since she lives in Texas.   When I ran into him looking depressed, while his mother talked to Mike the brown Lab’s mother, we sat on a bench in the sun. Seems he still has it pretty bad for Alouette, that flighty French Poodle.   “You know Ben, they’re all femme fatales. They…
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athingirl · 19 days
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A Poignant Story
It’s pouring rain. I’m soaked having no umbrella grateful that it’s at least not too cold.  As I turn on Third Avenue for home, there’s a man of color in a wheelchair missing a foot parked in the middle of the avenue. Turns out his wheel is stuck and only having one foot along with being drenched, is in big trouble.  Suddenly all traffic stops like it was a movie and the director…
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athingirl · 21 days
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The Pizza Boys
Every Sunday after reading for two blissful hours at the Library, treat myself to a slice of spinach and mushroom pizza.  I know what you’re thinking, big deal. But what you need to understand is, all week long I eat like a monk to keep my body humming like it belongs to a spry 20 year-old, at least that’s my aim, which lets face it, could very well miss….  but be that as it may…  saying I look…
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athingirl · 24 days
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The Hypocritical You
  I always claim I never read fiction, yet my three favorite books are all novels.   I insist not being interested at all in younger men, then find myself cooing like a dove in their presence.   Susannah says she never eats sweets, so why is Sara Lee in her  freezer?   But here’s my biggest denial…I’m not at all political.   Then why am I reading Mark Paxson’s political blog The Dead Horse like…
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athingirl · 26 days
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Those Wacky Presidents
Thomas Jefferson was a shopaholic, forced to sell all of his books to pay his debts. Of course his vast collection did sire the Library of Congress, so Tom at least could still hold his head up while buying all those breeches in assorted colors.    He clearly spoke too soon when he famously said…  I cannot live without books.  George Washington’s teeth went on a National Tour, kinda like A Chorus…
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athingirl · 28 days
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Life On The Train
 It’s midday on the Downtown Express.  I’m en route to see my therapist I’ve reconnected with realizing I need someone with brains to talk to.  Last time after I said how I now follow Chuck the Bassett Hound on Instagram, he agreed it was a good move to come back.  My focus is on a pretty young Muslim girl who looks as if she could use a little help. Her skirt is much too long scraping the floor,…
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athingirl · 1 month
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Words of a Wisdom With A Kick
 Just when you think you’ve heard everything.  I was talking to a woman in the Park when a guy I know went by and didn’t return my hello. He actually sneered at me as if my greeting offended him in some way.  Alice, I’ll call her, after I said, what’s the matter with him said, “You know, he could be constipated.”   This made me take pause as her Beagle, Archie, lifted his leg aiming at my…
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athingirl · 1 month
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Teddy Still Teaching From Above
  I’ve just reread…   A Bully Father…Letters Theodore Roosevelt Wrote To His Children, by Jean Paterson Kerr. He too reread books he liked and said, they always read brand new.   This goes for me too.    For instance, he uses the word cunning a lot to describe his six children…Alice, Ted Jr., Kermit, Ethel, Archie and Quentin. I always assumed it only meant crafty and sly.   Its second meaning…
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athingirl · 1 month
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Best Story Of The Week...February 22
This could only happen to me.   I’m on my way home in the freezing cold walking behind a girl with birthday balloons and what I now see, a box of giant cookies that has tilted open. I watch as oversized chocolate chip and what looks like, fudge brownie scatter along the sidewalk.   The wind is blasting her balloons as she tries to balance the box to close it.   I of course come to her aid. “Give…
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athingirl · 1 month
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Did You Know...Giving From The Heart Edition
  For 27 years up to her untimely death in 2014, every Thanksgiving the comedian Joan Rivers before hosting a lavish lunch for her friends, would volunteer at God’s Love We Deliver, bringing food to New Yorkers who due to poverty, age, or illness, simply needed help.  In 2011 the musician, Jon Bon Jovi and his wife Dorothea, opened JBJ Soul Kitchen in Red Bank, New Jersey to provide healthy,…
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athingirl · 1 month
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Life On The Train
      86th and Lexington Avenue Station     Train Platform    Why is it that snow and the subway never get along? She treats even a modest downfall like an ex-husband.    When I first optimistically fly through the turnstile, fail to notice the group who hasn’t, waiting to make sure the Number 6 will actually arrive.    By the time it does, we’re three deep on the platform. When the doors open,…
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True Love As I Remember It
  Valentine’s Day is considered a Hallmark holiday, but it does give one permission to reflect.   When someone asks why I’m alone, like The Thin Man’s Nora Charles snap, like any good athlete I’ve hung up my number.   Truth be told, I don’t take a punch like I used to.   Looking back I can say, out of many encounters, have only had three poignant love affairs, all ending sadly.   One was with…
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