Month: May 2014
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Our New York
New York is the Statue of Liberty. The Circle Line. Washington Square. Greenwich. The West Village. Chinatown. The Empire State Building. MOMA. The Guggenheim. The Upper West Side. Central Park. We did none of that. Our plans were fluid. We knew where we would stay, knew what day we would…
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Swing, Fail, Swing Again
We played ball out back on a makeshift miniature diamond I mowed into the high, early summer St. Augustine grass. The 8-year-old stepped to the foam-rubber home plate, batting lefty, knees bent just so, arms high but relaxed, head cocked toward the pitcher — me. I wound up and tossed the…
