Oystercatcher Top Gun The sun was hot this Long Beach day: More like July than the end of May. Mom herded her chicks to relief from the sun: Birds always know what […]
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The Launch of Music Man
“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.” (Albert […]
Together, and Splashing It
I live in the tiny City by the Sea that many of you, some across the oceans, have read about here. Yes, Long Beach, NY is small, about 36 thousand salty souls. […]
The Rain on Our Rights
I often wondered why I enjoyed watching the rain through a window. Sure, there was a beauty to it: wind-whipped torrents, the dance of the drops, the merge of puddle circles, or […]
American Grit
I didn’t yet know the hardened grit of America. We were in World War II—and I was only five years old. I only knew of playing with toy cars in the sand, […]
Christmas, On the Sea of Love
It was the same deep bark, a big-dog bark that I heard the last time I was here. I knew I looked eccentric, my hair wild, my eyes, red. I was on […]
Passions, Private and Profane
The beach of Long Beach is bordered by dunes, a boardwalk, and a palisade of high rises. Just over those high rises is Broadway, a busy thoroughfare that everyone in Long Beach […]
It’s Refreshing
Try it. You’ll like it. My brother, Rod, lives in assisted living. Due to the highly contagious Delta variant, we don’t go to lunch as often as we had, but coffee is […]
Of Lifeguards and Life on Our Shore
I had to put my camera down. I sat in my sand chair watching the young family in the surf, a vignette of laughter in white spray. I want to capture such […]
This is Why I hate People
“You don’t need to be the tide to rise and fall, you don’t have to be a wave to touch the shore; just be a little sand-grain and feel them all”—Munia Khan […]
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