The four horses ride. The harlot sucks all life force. The beast doth mark you. The seventh seal unstickith. These sacred words were once the province of Millenaries. Not anymore. Now, with the help of the New Apostolic prophets you too can get advance admission to Armageddon. The New Apostolics may elect another Texan president… Read more »
When you’re a tour guide and you work in a city like New York, you meet people from all over the world. Each day, as I speak with individuals from far-flung nations about the unique aspects of their lives—their travels, their careers, their families, their homelands—I can’t help but notice: All those clichéd and slightly… Read more »
Most people think summer is the best time to travel. Are they nuts? Kids are out of school, planes are packed, temperatures are hot and tempers are short. Give me fall travel any day. Remember all of those flights you were trying to book this spring or early summer and fares (along with gas prices)… Read more »
Below is a piece I wrote on July 15th. Unfortunately it is playing out as predicted. The S&P may or may not have used bad math to downgrade the U.S. credit rating but their stated reasoning (unstable US domestic politics prohibiting the ability of the US gov to secure the long term financial security of… Read more »
When you are a writer and you live in New York, you sometimes take odd jobs in order to earn a living. I pay my bills by walking in the footsteps of a fellow (albeit fictional) New York writer, Miss Carrie Bradshaw. I am a Sex and the City tour guide. My workday starts on the… Read more »
Ask a New Yorker: What do you think of this sculpture behind us? Tamara: I love it. It’s beautiful. It’s huge and really monumental. Ask a New Yorker. That it is. Do you have a creative edge? Tamara: Well I’m an art therapist. I make lots of art. I just graduated actually from NYU two… Read more »
Ask a New Yorker: If the stairs don’t kill you, the rat will. Georgette: Ten flights up. Do you feel closer to God now? I know the rat, I freaked out. Ask a New Yorker: Congratulations are in order. Georgette: Thank you very much. I’m seven months along. Ask a New Yorker: Pregnant women are… Read more »
Introductory Blog… As I sit here in front of my computer screen, I ponder what to write and where to begin? There is so much of myself to share. First off my name is Tamara Mesty Morgan. I am a three feet two, 48lb, 26 year old woman from Williamsburg, Brooklyn. I have had over… Read more »
White Flowers From the Butterfly Bush. A handful of late summer blooms. Hoped for. Here. Now.
The stories are tragic, but they are in the truest use of the word – senseless. Folks doing silly things for a picture and then paying for it with their lives. Just this past weekend, a man hiking in the Catskills slipped and fell while standing on a ledge taking photos of a waterfall. Last… Read more »
