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Saturday in the park with George … Washington

Saturday in the park with George … Washington

Saturday was the inaugural Dance Parade which grooved its way down a slightly damp 5th Avenue to end in a dance party in Washington Square Park. Dancers in the park included Simi Linton (above left, with banner), her husband David (aka Fuzzy, above right; the roller...

Ear candy

Standing on the subway platform en route to pick up my newly re-strung tennis racquet, a handsome man approached me. He said something, but as I was wearing my iPod headphones at the time I couldn’t hear a word. After I removed one of the buds from my ear, he...
Summer is a-comin’

Summer is a-comin’

Within a couple of weeks we’ve gone from persistently chilly to downright toasty – yesterday I actually heard people complaining about how hot it was. Human beings are marvellous creatures, aren’t we? Given the lack of visuals on Apple Girl recently...

“Shoes are the forces of evil”

These words came out of the mouth of a financial planner whose advice I had recently sought. During our brief conversation I casually mentioned purchasing a pair of shoes a few days earlier, and he reacted with this beauty. The gist of his comment was that...

“Tell me about the wombats, George”

Sitting around a table the other night at a dinner party for a friend’s birthday, I was ambushed by a spray of questions about Australian fauna. “What’s the difference between a wallaby and a kangaroo?” “Have you ever had a pet wombat? Do...

It’s SO good to speak Astraayan now and then

Today at lunch I enjoyed a salmon sandwich and a broad Australian accent, both courtesy of my entrepeneur friend and colleague Rob Depinto of volunteerxchange.com and liquidwit.com. Longtime readers of this journal might recall a humorous episode I related here about...
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