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Three a.m.

Posted on March 16, 2013 by RosieL

It’s been too hot to sleep and at three o’clock in the morning you may as well go googling as do anything else. Things come to mind then that may escape you in the daylit hours. And one thing can … Continue reading →

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Writing the big apple.

Posted on November 4, 2012 by RosieL

In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy I signed into my Twitter account, and my eyes fell first onto a tweet from @TeriTynes. She had written : “I’d like to know more about the mental state of the local woman who … Continue reading →

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Park of my heart.

Posted on November 9, 2011 by RosieL

In the midst of New York’s hurly-burly and hullabaloo, there lays, serenely and greenly, Central Park. I love a good park. This one’s enormous, somewhere around the 850 acres mark. That didn’t help me imagine the size of it, either. … Continue reading →

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And don’t forget you’re going to nyc.

Posted on September 3, 2011 by RosieL

I can’t remember when I first thought about New York as a place to go. Maybe it was one thing that decided me, or maybe it was many. Ages, stages. A Woody Allen film, the Today Show with Bryant Gumbel … Continue reading →