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Showing posts with label Queens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Queens. Show all posts
27.3.23

Griffins & Mythological Creatures: Architectural Motifs in the Jackson Heights Neighborhood of Queens

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New York City neighborhoods are rich in history, and Jackson Heights is no exception. Situated in a rectangular swath of Queens, with Northe...
28.7.22

Teaching Peter and the Wolf: 2006 Oscar Winning Suzie Templeton Short Film

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In this post, I talk about teaching the short film "Peter and the Wolf" in my Eighth Grade English Language Arts class in Queens. ...
25.7.22

Journal Entry #2502022: I Woke Up This Morning on a Hot, Summer Day in Queens and I Fiddled

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In this post, I dabble in a bit of online journaling. Take a peek at the day in the life of a bloke in New York City on a hot Summer day. Th...
22.7.22

Heat Stroke Diary #34876: The Summer of 2022 and My Oscillating Fan is on High Alert

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In this post, written during the 2022 heat wave, I wonder if I have ever done anything special. And hope that I have. Collage of the Author ...
17.11.21

Pizza Face: Wednesdays in the School Dining Hall

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What do you eat for lunch at school? On Wednesdays, we eat Pizza. A Slice of Pizza Pizza Face. What you looking at? * * * * #pizzaface   #te...
6.11.21

Fall Teaching Diary: After a Quarter of the Year Teaching (On the Hinge of the Covid-19 Pandemic)

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I am a high school English teacher. But, in this post, I don't talk at all about teaching. But if you want to check out  my store on Tea...
26.7.21

I Go Walking Often in New York City: Tunnel Portals and Asian Comfort Food

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In this blog post, I reflect on the relationship between walking and wandering in the city. And how I found the East River tunnel portals in...
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11.7.21

Journey to Willow Lake in Queens (And There and Back Again, Out of the Bog)

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In this post, I take a walk to a hiking trail next to Willow Lake in Queens. It's a marshland in the middle of a metropolis. View of Wil...
12.5.21

Why Wednesday Is the Day of the Week to Send Messages (Because of Woden, or, as the Greeks Call Him, Hermes)

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Wednesday is named for Woden — the Norse parallel for the Greek and Roman messenger god Hermes. Ephemera I’m obsessed with messages, epistol...
31.3.21

Spring Break with Jambalaya and Friends and Why I Love Faces (and Portraits!)

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What’s the best feature of the photograph? Portraits! Photos capture faces. And I’ve appreciated faces lately — especially during this recen...
8.1.21

A Fourth Grader's Optimism: Who Needs Some Inspiration? (Especially After the Tumultuous Events in Washington, D.C. this Week!)

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Feeling the need to be inspired, I found this post-it note on a bulletin board at the school where I am a high school English teacher. I tea...
11.12.20

Photograph: A Scene of a Winter Gloaming in Queens

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A million years ago I spotted the gloaming on a Summer evening in Brooklyn near the Gowanus Canal. Fast forward into the future and here I ...
12.9.20

First Days of School in the Covid-19 Era — Report from a High School English Teacher

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Some schools have already been back in session for three weeks now and New York City Public schools have not even started but in our small s...
28.8.20

Journal & Rant: That Time I Joined a Pick-Up Basketball Game at Rainey Park in Queens

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In this post, we talk about a local pick-up game of basketball at Rainey Park in Queens. I don't play basketball. I don't play any s...
13.8.20

Photographs: Red Mask, Red Flowers, Pedestrians in Queens

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Taking a walk in Jackson Heights, Queens I notice shades of red. Found these in my camera roll and I'm surprised by the shades of red fo...
26.1.20

Photography: The Homes of Queens Attract the Night

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East Elmhurst The homes of Queens attract the night. Walking 🚶‍♀️ at night, certain nooks and crannies catch my attention. Notice the si...
8.12.19

Photograph: Ernie Childhood Toy Spotted at the Museum of the Moving Image

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I had this Ernie puppet toy growing up — it was manufactured by Topper Toys in 1972 — mine was a handme down from my older brother. I l...
8.9.19

Getting Ready For A New School Year (And Seeing Lots of Dog Walkers in Jackson Heights)

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I love this photograph (even though I took it). If you look at the image carefully you may notice I used “tilt-shift”. By shifting focus a...
9.6.19

Video Installation: Flyover Woodside, Queens (with a Church Steeple and Cross in the Foreground)

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I've documented a flyover of a passenger jet gliding over Eastern Queens on its way to Laguardia Airport. It was a bright, semi-cloudy...
27.12.18

Photo: Street Scene from Queens (My Favorite Instagram Pic from 2018)

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I took this photo in the Summer of '18 at the Jackson Heights Queens Pride Parade. So. I went through  my Instagram  profile and cho...