AT LARGE

There’s a wind coming off the Hudson. Frankly, it’s got a real bite to it. After all, it’s autumn in the tri-state area and along with leaves flaming into brilliant color, busloads of appreciative “leaf peepers” and end-of-season sales at local stores, it’s time to stand on the sidelines of a soccer game, a football game, or a field hockey game and cheer for our [...]

“Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.” – Molière The doggies need fresh water. Was that a hummingbird? It was a hummingbird! Time to check the mail. Time to check the email. The dishes need washing. The dehumidifier in the basement could stand to be emptied. Why is it so windy? [...]

We all have a list of things we haven’t done, but muse about.  “If I just had the time …”  “If there’s one thing I’d like to do …”  “It’s on my ‘bucket list’ …”  Admittedly, some are merely flights of fantasy. Most of us will never climb the Matterhorn, drive a Ferrari at 140 miles per hour, or appear on stage at Carnegie Hall. But, [...]

A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean. – Zhuangzi What if you could see in four colors? Birds possess that ability, the capacity to see in not only the trichromatic spectrum enabled by the red, blue, and green cones that we are limited to in our human eyes, but also in ultraviolet, which we do not. Yet even that leaves birds as [...]