He was standing in the Metro car with earphones in both ears, listening intently to whatever was playing on his device and all of a sudden, he sneezes. Standing next to him is a late- teen boy who upon experiencing the sneeze looks up and says ‘bless you’. The older man with the plugged ears …
Category Archives: Good Samaritans
Toiling Away
When non-New Yorkers think of the City and Broadway, they assume that every actor in town is gunning to be on the main stage of some Broadway production, but that is oh so not the case. Tucked away in basements, behind store fronts, in high rise buildings on floors assessable sometimes only by walking up …
Chinatown
For Western Medicine you go to the drug store and buy a bottle of pills that are manufactured somewhere with something in them that you hope works. At times a real improv. For Chinese medicine the powders or cures or remedies are made from dried real plant materials and specifically tailored to what ails you.They …
Street Lights
6:35 a.m. A cacophony of car horns. I lie there wondering what is the cause of the irregular honking. And then it stops. And then it starts up again. I look out of my bedroom window and see that the traffic light on the North corner of the street is stuck. The North flow traffic …
Shopping
As I passed them in the aisle, I heard her ask him, ‘Shall I stand in line for you?’. We were all in Trader Joe’s on Saturday afternoon, which is about as close to organized madness as one will find. The line for the checkout, which is actually a double line, stretches the length of …
On the Street
Walking north on 7th Avenue early Sunday morning with a friend, a package slipped under a mailbox catches my eye. I walk past then reverse and stand there, conversing in speculation about what it could be. We can see a what appears to be a couple of folded pillowcases and the rest is all white …