Before moving to the city, I’d made 8 trips for business, school, whatever. Since most of my great aunts and uncles lived in Manhattan, I never saw any of the other boroughs.

Today an interview required me to go to Brooklyn for the first time. I took the subway, arrived faster than expected, and was pleasantly surprised! It’s normal…and kind of fun! I thought the subway would go outdoors and I could view the bridge, but that didn’t happen. Maybe in the summer I’ll walk across it.

I noticed today that many of my readers were coming in from Wikipedia! I jumped onto their site to find that The Arts et al’s November interview listed among other articles about Albert Evans on his Wikipedia page!

I’m still not accustomed to the verbal diarrhea New Yorkers tend to contract.

On the bus, I listened to an elderly woman brag that her retirement home has a bar, while nothing that her doctor has already told her not to drink. “But who cares, when you get to be my age…”

A Long Islander seated next to me on a plane admitted that he’d had an abortion, then proceeded to “convert” the Jewish man beside him.

A woman at Atlanta Hatfield Airport (she was from New York too) told a stranger that her husband left her for an elderly millionaire.

“Well, you know how that goes!” she giggled nervously.