You’re a NYC Transit Cop. You and your Brother and Sister officers are the Marines of NYC policing as you patrol the 660 miles of track and 468 stations of the city […]
The Puddle Beneath his Head was Red…
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I'm a former Marine and retired NYC Transit Police Detective. I offer a photo journal blog that is mostly about beach life, the wildlife and the semi-wild human denizens of the shore. I find the former can teach much to the latter at Leebythesea.me
So Mothers Don’t Cry…
So mothers don’t cry… The thing about guns is that they don’t always impress people. I was in the NYPD Felony Warrant Squad, going to literally thousands of doors in those high-crime […]
Thank You
Thank you for not chewing gum. “If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.” Meister Eckhart I saw an advisory to entrants […]
High on Love, America and Rubber Bands
“There is no art without love. Art is always the making of the soul, the craft of man’s touch…so it has been since Neanderthal times and so it will always be.” […]
Trick or Bleat
Easing on down the highway of tax horror… A pike to fishermen is something on his hook, but pikes of Medieval times were pointy shafts like the points of spears, or javelins. […]
Speed Zone Cameras are Taxing our Patience
This week our local Nassau Co NY Legislature shied away from a property tax increase of 3.4% or about $41 for the average homeowner. Election day shyness. At least that property tax rise […]
The Whales of October are Here
Hello Brazil! The sea is alive with a frenzy of feeding. The ocean off Long Beach, NY seemed particularly healthy this year, last year too. This year the water was as clear […]
Support your Local Speed Zone Camera
Drivers of the world, unite. In the good ol’ USA, local governments have turned to traffic cameras to make the streets safer…it says here. In beautiful downtown Nassau County on New York’s […]
Let’s Join at the Groin
The jetties of Long Beach protrude into the North Atlantic like black piano keys under a grand-piano swoop of white sand. They are my sanctuary. These beach protrusions are actually groins, […]
Civilized Wrath Unleashed
Riders of planet Earth, ISIS has raised its head…it’s time for nature to take its course: There comes a time when civilized humankind can be forgiven for yielding to wrath. As when […]
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