June 23, 2020
No more pencils, no more books… oh wait! We haven’t used either since March! Though I have enjoyed seeing my students’ ceilings in our Google Meets, the school year is ending on a rather anti-climactic fashion. A trip to my school to pick up some curriculum planning stuff for summer Read more…
June 13, 2020
The longest suspension bridge in the world at the time of its construction, the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge’s anchorages dig into 115 feet of the Earth. That excavated soil and sand helped to create Brooklyn’s Calvert Vaux Park, the latest park in my exploration series. With a nice view of the bridge Read more…
May 18, 2020
Goodnight, bridge. {Recipe here.}
May 17, 2020
Oh no. Oh no. Oh no no no no no. Ok, enough of The Shangri-Las, though they’re one of the absolute coolest girl groups from the sixties. It was a late lunch on the beach. Staten Island’s FDR Boardwalk & Beach was at a healthy buzz upon our arrival. After Read more…
April 8, 2020
Though I was first feeling like this about the drastic shift in my work duties… …I’m feeling better now. Routines have been created and there’s no dress code, though I rocked the tutu yet again to make some example pictures for my students who I was assigning a homebound version Read more…
March 26, 2020
The “Z” from my classroom has hung in all my official teaching spaces. So now it is on my apartment door. I can’t wait until it is back in room 329A. That time of the month. The time when Vegancuts send me a care package. Even more welcome in a Read more…
March 18, 2020
As I attempt to become remote teaching expert in 30 seconds, I decided I would also attempt to remotely teach my after school crafting club! I assigned my first assignment… to capture a piece of “Your Brooklyn.” So I went out to capture mine–my bridge. I was so pleased to Read more…
July 24, 2019
Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal is heavily polluted. The vivid colors of its contaminants caught my eye this day. It was like a Jackson Pollack canvas moving down the water’s surface. Is it horrible that I love how this looks? Yes, yes it is. Brooklyn-beautiful. Not beautiful-beautiful. My bridge in a delightful Read more…
March 4, 2019
I really wanted to take snow pictures today, but I had to settle for slush pictures. The bright white would help me play a little bit with aperture, shutter speed and exposure compensation, the three variables that were the subject of my first photography class. Setting out, I wanted to Read more…
November 30, 2018
[That’s not me; that’s Henry Thoreau, one of my favorite men in history.] Either stop or slow down. But don’t go. The F train views, 87.5 feet from ground level. The highest elevated train IN THE WORLD. Sometimes the litter is a Millennium Falcon. My Bridge Take-out Thursday Top Thai Read more…