Author Archives: The Chronicler
Oops
Hope you all chuckled over that!
Oops
“Like Me”?
The phenomena of social media is something with which I struggle. Friends and relations gathering ‘hundreds of followers’ and everyone posting their likes and the entire gamut of their food choices for the day. And the begging to like this or that. Yes, begging. Not a suggestion, or please. Just the harsh reality of a …
What Were They Thinking
Got off the subway at an unknown stop and came fact to face with these walls. What was the inspiration behind this choice of tiling. And so much of it. Miles and miles.
To Do or Not To Do
that is the question. When I spot such nicely potted plants, on an unknown person’s doorstep, and I see that the geranium needs to be deadheaded, so it will keep blooming, I am tempted to do the job. But then a caution rises up within me and says, it’s not your circus, not your monkeys …
Improbable
This ‘ode to bagel’ is a new statuary on the corner of Greenwich and 6th Avenue. There is no description and from me, little understanding. Is it burnt? What is the significance of the blackened tulip stuck in the holes of the bagels. I can come up with some far-fetched interpretation, but cannot imagine that …
The Lady
Am walking toward the #14A and #20 bus stop on a Saturday, late morning, when a middle-aged-sane-looking-lady suddenly starts screeching at a bus that is driving past her. The passing bus is a #12 and is driving to the first stop it makes a block and a half away. This #12 is a new service …
Goodwill ReArrange
The Goodwill store on Eighth Avenue did some rearranging of merchandise. The workers cleaned up/out the basement and transferred all the women’s clothing to hanging racks there. The area is spacious, clean and quiet. One arrives there through a door next to the books at the back of the store on the first floor, down …
So Wanted to Know the Story
What is the reason for the rose? Will never know.