Monthly Archives: December 2012

SUNDAY MORNING COMING DOWN / Johnny Cash

December 30, 2012 – 1:02 pm

LET THE WORDS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES.

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Modern Forever

December 29, 2012 – 9:54 pm

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Seagram Building, park avenue, manhattan Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed the Seagram Building at 375 Park Avenue to be the crown jewel of corporate modernism and the 38-story skyscraper has withstood the architectural assault of time. Last week I was walking past 375. My eyes were drawn into the […]

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Snow, Rain or Ice

December 29, 2012 – 8:02 pm

New York was spared a White Christmas for the holiday, but weathermen predicted a winter storm due for this weekend. I woke early in the Fort Greene Observatory. The skyline over the brownstones promised to back up their report. Within an hour snowflakes swirled in the air and I touched the window. It was cold […]

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CROSSING THE CHANNEL by Peter Nolan Smith

December 27, 2012 – 1:24 am

I had moved away from Boston in 1971, but every Christmas of my adult life had been spent with my family on the South Shore. This streak of thirty-three years was broken in 1985, when n art dealer invited a female French singer and me to his cottage on the Isle of Wight for the […]

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Back To Work

December 24, 2012 – 10:06 am

Last week I had no work ahead of me and the rest of the year promised to offer more of the same. I luckily sold two diamonds to make enough money to pay rent and send my kids in Thailand, but my own existence was threatened by a dismal lack of funds. I called friends […]

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