Monthly Archives: July 2012

    In honor of “The Unknown” (and because a few loyal readers asked me), I delve deeper into my encounter with the unknown, begun last time….   One night, after I graduated my college and just before I moved to New York, I woke up in the middle of the night to see anContinue reading “Lesson from an Angel”

The summer after I graduated from college, days before I moved to New York to start a real adult life, I saw a ghost.  Or maybe it was an angel, or a rare subset, a guardian ghost.  Decades later, I’m still not sure.  I am sure that it was not a dream or hallucination.  AfterContinue reading “A Midsummer Night’s Ghost Story”

On Independence Day, I walked across the Brooklyn Bridge. We didn’t plan to do this.  My daughter, my friends, and I were headed downtown to walk around revolutionary sites.  But we emerged from the subway right where the walkway starts, and those iconic arches looming above us, inviting us to cross over to the GreatContinue reading “Interdependence Day”