ZEN AND THE SUNDAY MORNING MOTORCYCLE RIDE By Warren D. Jorgensen I rolled up to the light and stopped, the muffled throbbing of the engine beneath me the sole sound in the morning air, the only other movement the sun rising slowly over Westchester, warming my back. A cool brisk wind blew out of the […]
Fortune Cookies, and the Like
Except she wasn’t like That at all. She just wasn’t. She was so many things other than That, so many other things that she knew, she knew knew knew, if other people knew they would think about her, and things, more than once. Upon knowing, they would shake some sort of previous image, that prior opinion, out of […]
Valentine’s Day Is Stupid Unless You Have One
Dear St. Valentine: Who you are is not really clear to many historians but you stand for love, which is commendable. However, every year you make more people feel terrible about life than Hannity & Colmes, runway models, and the New York Knicks combined, which is a lot of damn people. Because of you, I […]
The Aftermath of the Candidate’s Debate
As David Koenigsberg left the candidates’ debate on November 30, he turned to his trial lawyer running mates on the Democratic ticket and remarked, “We have done everything that we can; now it is in the hands of voters”. In all recent elections, the outcome had been predictable. The Dobbs Ferry Party (“DFP”), a […]
The Lighthouse
It rested softly in her hands, aged and frail. “Do you want to open it now?” asked Angela. Her brother shook his head and looked toward the black cockatoos brutally pruning the eucalypts by the creek. The land sloped down from the house, overgrown shrubs crowding around what had once been an expanse of lawn. […]