Beans that are called peas

Amy Ormond, New Year’s Day Traditions:   http://amyormond.com/?p=284   Truthfully black-eyed peas are already made.  Open the bag, rinse and pick over (because sometimes there’s a stone or a lump of dried dirt)….and go.  Put in large pot and cover with … Read More

SICK

Too damn many mischievous metaphors about being ill. The FLOOO blows through and that silly tongue twister keeps repeating in my head:   as a flea and a fly in a flue… imprisoned so what could they do? Said the flea “let us … Read More

Week of the election – Tempests

Was the dawning week just after Sandy warped time. Just after standard time returned. Just after, just after. Was the week we saw, on Tuesday evening, The Tempest as opera, music by Thomas Ades, script by Meredith Oakes. We were … Read More

Students at UNNCArts comment on “Basil King: MIRAGE”

    Filmmaker and poet Julian Semilian screened the film for his students in experimental film at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (Winston-Salem). (The school’s ‘movie street’ is seen above.) He sent these comments: I can … Read More

Stories of Sandy Aftermath

It’s an okay Sunday morning, November 4 – but we Kings had the unreal experience of almost nothing happening here on the favorable high ground on the western end of Long Island.  I believe we are 18 feet above sea … Read More

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