My local NPR station (WNYC, New York) was having its Fall Fundraising Drive so you all know what that means. I pledge my various dollar amounts to support listener-funded radio for another year (this year I called in two pledges and got Frank Sinatra’s “Ring a Ding Ding”, one of his best albums of the [...]

Fall! The first leaves are falling here on the south shore of the Long Island Sound.

Yes, that’s a real cat waiting for door service.

The fall colors are splendid –

—and so are the curbside gardens.

To tell the truth, this is the only curbside garden I’ve ever seen. Somebody went to a lot of trouble here, [...]

So me and my sister Buffy took our un-ironed selves down to the First General assembly of Occupy Wall Street at Washington Square Park last Saturday, Oct. 8, 2011.

Buffy made us two matching signs that read: “I Am The 99%” — this is her picture from before we dove into the gathering, standing at the [...]