Brave men were buried under the soil of America. This week New York City buried the second of two of it’s valiant Officers: Det Wenjian Liu and Det. Rafael Ramos. Their families’ […]
Defusing Social Bombs
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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
THIS, Is What We Do
“Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.” Malala Yousafzai Malala of course is the young girl who was shot in the head because […]
Broken Windows, Broken Hearts
You are being torn apart. The bullets tore through the broken window then through your flesh as bullets will do on their mission. Bit’s of bone and sprays of scarlet filled the […]
Christmas…Just for a Time
Did you ever hear anyone say, “Let’s go out and paint the town…brown”? Or doing anything “by the light of the beige moon”? I didn’t think so. We get brown news all […]
The Puddle Beneath his Head was Red…
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 […]
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 […]
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