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A dusting of icing sugar

That’s what it looked like to me, as I stepped outside my apartment building to go for one of my high-speed power walks on Saturday morning. While I was sleeping, snow had fallen in sufficient quantities to cover the sidewalks with a light coverage of about an...
Snow!

Snow!

I should be careful what I purchase – as soon as I reported buying a pair of waterproof boots, it decided to snow. I was working away diligently, nose down into the laptop, high up on the 17th floor, and looked out the windows to see bona fide snow flakes...
Temperature drops below zero, time to rug up

Temperature drops below zero, time to rug up

Do you recognise me underneath all these layers? Outside my employer’s home-office front door, directly opposite the liftwell, is a full-length mirror that kindly reminds me every day just how becoming my winter uniform is. In the streets, a touch of colour in a...

Meditations after a month’s absence

This week I jotted down a few things I’ve noticed on return to New York after one month away from the city, on holiday back home in Australia. Lots of dead Christmas trees lying on the sidewalk (footpath), waiting to be carted away. They looked to me like the...

Ivy takes up residence

Ivy is my new pot plant, a delicate little thing whom I picked up at the Farmers’ Market around the corner from my place on Saturday. The market was relatively deserted, containing many fewer producers than the last time I visited in November. I attribute the...

Procrastinating in Prospect Park

What else to do when contemplating a day’s writing? Go for a long walk in Prospect Park. It was my first walk there since early December. The place was near empty and quiet of birds. Even the squirrels made no noise as they jumped around, because all the leaves...
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