Have Pen Will Travel

Author: tracy

  • Photo Hunt: Art

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    I got a message last week from Mimi about the Blogblast for Peace. She suggested that I make a Peace Globe for my Photo Hunt entry this week, and I would have if: I had been able to figure out how to do it, and I had been able to find the time to post…

  • Photo Hunt 58: Cook(ing)

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    No one in this household cooks. This is not usually a problem. We can, of course, boil water for pasta and pick up veggie salads at Lifethyme, the organic store down the street. We can order in from a variety of places. The only time we feel a bit at loose ends is when we…

  • Photo Hunt 57: Five

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  • Photo Hunt: Childhood

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  • Photo Hunt 55: Rare

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    Thirty years ago, when I lived in the far West Village, the only people on the street late at night were the guys working in the meat markets and the transvestite hookers whose cat fights were more entertaining than TV. I always felt very safe. What would a transvestite want with me? And the beefy…

  • Photo Hunt 54: Steps

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    In Greenwich Village, where I live, many of the brownstones have these steep steps leading up to the front door. While a bit of a navigational challenge to old people, they do provide the icing on the architectural cake with their fanciful wrought iron railings, and are rather too tempting to passers-by who like to…

  • Photo Hunt 53: Hobby

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    This is Ray. Monday, the sixteenth, is his birthday. He will probably get a card or two from his friends on Catster. Ray and the rest of the cats have been on Catster for a little more than a year. If you don’t know what it is, it’s kind of hard to explain. I’ve heard…

  • Photo Hunt 51: Water

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    There’s a greenway that runs along the Hudson River, from Battery Park at the southernmost end of Manhattan, to the George Washington Bridge roughly six miles north. This particular stretch, far west of Greenwich Village, I think of as my backyard. I try to come down here every night after work because being on the…

  • Photo Hunt 50: Empty

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    I have an ongoing love/hate relationship with possessions and periodically vow to rid myself of anything that’s not absolutely essential. The problem is, what I consider essential changes. For instance, when I came back from a two week camping trip in Wyoming, I thought I could get rid of all my pots and pans and…

  • PhotoHunt 49: Drink

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    All four of my cats drink out of glasses, and I have at least a half dozen set up for their convenience around the house. But my cats, not unlike most people, are more interested in what’s in my glass than theirs. For example, Mouse (not pictured) enjoys Snapple Diet Iced Tea with lemon. He’ll…