Category Archives: superstitions

Friday The 13th

August 13, 2021 – 8:43 am

The number 12 symbolizes completeness for numerologists and 13 has a reputation of a prime number steeped with irregularity. Thirteen is further tarnished by being the number of people at the Last Supper of Jesus. The Turks went so far as to ban the number from their language and the Vikings feared that if thirteen […]

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A Few Steps With A Ghost

July 20, 2021 – 1:34 pm

Walking back from High Falls Quiet sang in the woods Opposite the abandoned Philmont mill Dusk swooned over the western ridge The sun was fare-welling day With a final offering a glow of neon orange. In my sixty-nine years I have seen over twenty-thousand sunsets Many of them alone But not tonight. A spectral figure […]

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Thai Hair-Cut No No

February 18, 2021 – 6:01 pm

Several years ago I walked over the Brooklyn Bridge to a party in Nolita. The city skyline shimmered under a sky dotted by the few stars brilliant enough to pierce New York’s light umbrella. Tourists flashed photos in the dark and the bridge hummed with the passage of cars and trucks. The night was bitter […]

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Superstitions a la Carte

November 13, 2020 – 1:43 pm

Thais have more superstitions about food than the Irish have about the clúrachán, a mischievous fairy, messing with beer and Whiskey. Here’s a short list of Thai don’ts. Eating a double banana will give a woman twins, which must be tough for those showgirls doing the banana tricks at go-gos. Eating before your elders will […]

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Doomsday Failure in Geneva

November 11, 2020 – 11:01 am

LONDON post November 2008 (click on image to enlarge ) December 21, 2012 was the day the Mayans have predicted for the end of the world. Western man attempted to defy the cosmic math of the ancients by flicking on a beam of subatomic particles in Geneva’s 17-mile-long circle called the Large Hadron Collider. Some […]

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