Heroin Helen

Not her real name but certainly a woman who deserved a clever calling card.  I met her when we bought a co-op far uptown on the West Side of Manhattan.  It was an area the realtors were calling Hudson Heights, but it was really just Washington Heights.  Regardless of...

Ebony and Ivory

I’m a firm believer that it pays to acknowledge your weaknesses and remain humble and self deprecating.  What I actually think of myself you’ll never know.  You’ll find no evidence.  But as a kid growing up in the burbs (and not just any old burb,...

Where you at Osama?

Renovations.  We’ve lived through thousands of them.  In fact, it’s boring when our apartment or house isn’t being invaded by electricians or plumbers or (my favorite) skim coaters.  What’s a skim coater you ask?  Well they take uneven or...

Open House

We’ve been living on a little piece of land located in Hell as of late. Selling our house that we don’t want to leave and seeing townhouses in Philadelphia we will purchase. To get out of the house due to fifteen private showings yesterday, we had to take...