Disengagement
7:12pm Saturday night, walking to my dinner reservation at 7:15, restaurant is a fifteen-minute walk: Thoughts running through my head as I power-walk...
2018
The many Year in Reviews popping up on my newsfeed are filled with positivity, as friends look back on their year with rose-colored glasses. I appreci...
Completely unacceptable.
Friday night, I had the distinct pleasure of eating dinner with my 90-year-old grandfather on his birthday. He came all the way to New York to eat din...
Relieving Yourself
A couple weeks ago, I saw a man suffering from homelessness standing against a building. I was standing nearby, looking at Google maps trying to figur...
Man with Bike
Sunday, 3pm. I’m squeezed between two people, among a group of crushed together people on the 6. The train was so crowded that after one stop an old...
Is he going to kill us?
It’s a little after 9pm. I’ve hopped off the subway and walked up the deserted stairs to above ground, behind a family of three—a black mother w...
The Foot.
I smelled it first. A decaying, infected, atrocious smell that keep wafting toward my side of the train. I was talking to my friend about his adjustme...
The Quiet
The Subway trains here are atrociously loud. In fact, they’re basically as loud as a jet taking off. Don’t believe me? Read this Guardian article ...
The Pregnant Women
teenage pregnancy, disabilities, Subway, public transportation
On Being an Artist
Two weekends ago, on my Birthday, I went shopping in a random store and walked in on Corey Pane painting shoes. He was asked by the store to paint Tom...
Trip Around The World: Part Two
My second big thought from all of my travels is on safety. [If you missed my first big thought, click here]. How do you define safe? How do you defi...
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