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31.10.20

All Hallows' Eve in Greenwood Cemetery and Sunset Park, Brooklyn (Special 2020 Halloween Post)

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In this post, I will regale you with pictures and musings from an All Hallows' Eve visit to Greenwood Cemetery and Sunset Park, Brooklyn...
25.10.20

On How To Meet a Pontiff (Or, That Day I Attended a Private Audience with John Paul II)

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When I was a Roman Catholic Seminarian, and the very young age of nineteen, I was in...
20.10.20

How Diligence Paid Off Cataloging Indigenous Plant Species of Louisiana (And How I Came Upon the Secret of Motivation)

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In this post, I wax nostalgic about a class I took in high school and how it taught me something about human motivation. "You'll ne...
25.9.20

Street Photography: 74th Street in Jackson Heights, Queens (Plus Some Creative Writing)

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A walk through Jackson Heights reveals crisp night air, Saturn and Jupiter in the sky, masked faces, lit-up trees, and the vibrancy of 74th ...
19.9.20

Travel Diary: Jones Beach in September (When Jupiter and Saturn Are Visible in the Evening Sky)

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Where setting sun meets lapping waves — John, a friend, and colleague who is an amateur weather guy, tells me that the cloud formation in th...
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...
3.9.20

Aesthetic Thursday: First Time Back at the Museum of Modern Art Since Covid

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That time I stepped into the Museum of Modern Art since it had closed (like all cultural institutions) its doors because of the coronavirus ...