Fortunately, I’m a slow needle-pointer. Steady, sure. But slow. The downside of this is that I can spend months (years?) on a project. The upside? This glacial pace allows for some thinking. And overthinking. I’ve done a lot of pondering during my current project. This is a 14-inch-by-10-inch canvas showing a shelf of seven books. […]
The other day I came across a clutch of canceled checks (remember those?). I found myself wondering (fruitlessly it turns out) what I bought for $1.90 with that first check I ever wrote. The date was January 6, 1968–when Lyndon Johnson sat at the Resolute Desk and the Boston Red Sox sat on the American […]
On Saturday (November 6) Kathryn Tsandikos sat at one end of a table chatting with visitors and signing copies of Two Up and a Bag of Chips!, her history of George’s Coney Island restaurant. She was within arm’s reach of a pile of boxes of four-inch snack pies. These were Table Talk pies. This made […]