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When I met Alex Gardega, it was a late afternoon in 2011, and I was sitting at the bar at Coffee Shop in Union Square. I’d just had my...

I first went to the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies when I was 40. I signed up for the Memoir in Buddhist Practice workshop, but I...

We turned, down Peace Pipe Lane. “Which direction do we go?” I asked my son. The street, the main one of the Lac du Flambeau reservation...

Last week, I packed my car with a tent and sleeping bags, a few clothes and crucial accessories and I hit the road. There is an...

I first met Phyllis at The Old Stone House last fall after a group reading I’d been asked to participate in by Reiki practitioner Linda...

It was by happenstance that my family and I came upon the little area beyond Chelsea Piers with ping pong tables and a few food vendors...

On a recent night at the 12th St. Bar, Terry Radigan leaned forward into the microphone intimately, smiling sweetly as soulful lyrics...

I first heard about Barbes back in 2009. A young Frenchman was living with my family and doing some French tutoring and babysitting for...

I first met Said Bourhana at a club, listening to The Brooklyn Gypsies, in 2015. The band was jaw-droppingly sensual. My friends and I...

I saw Dee Dee Gomes’ art before I met her. I stood in front of the intricately knotted hanging of white wool and twine, twisted and...