"They saw ... the dreamers whose gravestones are long vanished, whose dreams have yet to come true, whose days were spent poring over maps with a magnifying glass, imagining the jumbled streets of Istanbul giving way to a magnificent new network of avenues, lined with linden trees as in Berlin, in the shape of a star as in Paris, overarched with ( Read more... )

I looked in the mirror this morning and I smiled and said out loud, "I have a lot of teeth!"

Today at the Department of Buildings in Queens, a distressed elderly Chinese woman ran into the hall and started talking to a man in line in front of me ( Read more... )

I found this in my drafts. I'm not going to tell you the rest of the story, because I think this observation is enough ( Read more... )

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May all of my relationships in life be less complicated than the one that I have with you.

But sometimes, the only thing that makes any sense is to love you completely.

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Who put all this Feist in my iTunes? Is this a practical joke?

It is 2:00 am. I find a bird ( Read more... )