Monthly Archives: January 2018

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January 7, 2018 – 10:54 pm

I spend the first day of the year with the Camp family in Duchess County. It was cold, but not that cold. There wasn’t much snow. The light made us all young. Even me. A snow storm came and the Christmas tree went out on the street in New York. It snowed more in Fort […]

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A Winter Poem

January 7, 2018 – 2:06 pm

My friend Alison in Palm Beach found this poem. Her trees are dying from the cold. ” WINTER ” by Abigail Elizabeth McIntyre Shit It’s Cold The End This was one of coldest weeks in America. Even Florida had snow. It wasn’t always that way and maybe it won’t be again, but I remember driving […]

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Mars Versus Mount Washington

January 6, 2018 – 6:58 pm

The atmosphere on Mars is a hundred times thinner than that of Earth. NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover has measured summer temperatures as high as 70 Fahrenheit or 20 Centigrade at the Red Planet’s equator, but as soon as the sun sets, the temperature can plummet to -100 F and -175F is not usual in the […]

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Coleman’s Mustard Shutdown

January 4, 2018 – 9:40 pm

I love mustard. Not Grey Poupon or Gulden’s, for while all mustard consist of the same menu. The whole, ground, cracked, or bruised mustard seeds mixed with water, salt, lemon juice, or other liquids. That simple. And you can leave mustard out forever without it going bad. French moutarde is the best. The British for […]

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The Demise of Naked Gay Discos in Miami

January 4, 2018 – 10:31 am

“How do you like it here?” Bruce Benderson asked in the courtyard of the Palm Beach house which a telecommunications millionaire has entrusted in my care. His East European friends were cooking lunch. Glenn his friend was perusing Anthony Haden-Guest’s book on New York nightlife. Our mutual friend Scottie Taylor featured in several chapter. We […]

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