New York meant Harlem to me, and as a young man I visited it whenever I could. But many of my old haunts are gone. The Theresa shut down in 1966. National chains that once ignored Harlem now anticipate yuppie money and want pieces of this prime Manhattan real estate. So here I am o...
daysuite73and poured another cup of decaf. He checked his watch. He glanced at the two partners sitting at the small conference table near the windows.? Precisely74at two-thirty someone knocked on the door. Lamar looked at the partners, who slid the resume and dossier into an openbriefcase...
How Does Exercise Improve Academic Performance? You already know that regular exercise is important for controlling weight and avoiding a variety of health conditions. But it can also improve your academic performance. As an expert said, “What we know is that students who exercise11, at least ...
She could nd out who'd told him about her when they met. "Yes," he said. " ere's a Starbucks in Victoria Station, opposite the bus rank. I can give you the recordings there. Tomorrow morning. Eleven." "Does that include the wax cylinders?" she said, but Mayhew had already ...
On cloudy days, the car still gets 60% to 70% of the energy it does on sunny days. How can the car keep going at night? Well, it has a large battery (电池)that can store energy. This allows the car to travel up to 600 kilometers at night. Stella Vita isn’t the Dutch team...
But, even still, the things he does or doesn’t do continue to hurt me or enrage me. I know it’s a lost cause but I can’t help it. In March, Ansel turned four. The day passed with no text, no call, no fucking FB post (his go to is “HBD Andie!”– heaven forbid that...
I’ll write about an alternate universe in which the hero and villain somehow became roommates, or I’ll give someone a giant robot arm that does the opposite of what its owner wants it to. Basically, I just create nonsense that makes me laugh to myself until I feel better. It works ...
This was back in the days before anyone knew what a video game system or company was supposed to be or would turn into, so a children’s toymaker like Mattel getting into video games probably seemed less odd then than it does to us now. Intellivision was the world’s first 16-bit ...
The Trickster enters into my stomach (through a process I don’t entirely understand) and creates this “havoc” or a “gut feeling,” and away I go. I start hearing dead people talk. Dead does not mean silent, as long as there is someone to hear them and type down what they say ...
Chaperoning science camp does both for me. Fifth-graders are not a part of my day-to-day life. After hanging around a school-ful of them for a week, I’ve learnt that I don’t know as much as I ought to, I have less control over anything than I think, but with enough best ...