Tag: New York City

• The Social History of a Man’s Tie Rack

    Many of you, my faithful readers and fans, probably assume that I just write a blog and then go off and mow the lawn, fish, read, paint, take Pilates, go to a movie, make a big bowl of popcorn, cook a stack of buttermilk flapjacks, attend a men’s support group, catalogue my moth collection,…

  patrickjegan

  September 2, 2014

  Blogging, Creativity, Everyday Events, humor, Memories, non-fiction, Real Personal History

  classrooms, Endicott, Ireland, necktie fashion, neckties, New York City, NY, old neckties, Quaker school, teaching

• Pushing Chalk: Recollections on a Classroom Life

  Hey, teacher leave them kids alone. -Pink Floyd “Another Brick in the Wall” 1979 “What is a rock?” I actually asked this question of my Earth & Space Science class of ninth graders.  It was probably my third year of teaching.  I was in a public school near Wilkes-Barre, PA.  There were thirty kids in…

  patrickjegan

  March 9, 2014

  Holding onto the Past, Memories

  chalk, classroom discipline, Connecticut, New York City, Pennsylvania, private schools, public schools, teaching

• The Maltese Stylus

  I looked out of the port-hole and saw the contrails of 757’s heading east, toward LA or Frisco, most likely.  So, good for them, I thought, let them get somewhere fast.  Me?  I’m happy right here, in the small cabin of a tramp steamer heading straight into Nowheresvilleport.  Once I get there, I’m heading for…

  patrickjegan

  January 11, 2014

  Alternate Endings, Real and Unreal Adventures, Uncategorized

  candy crush saga, computer game fame, computer games, defrocked priests, Fifth Ave., Ireland, jumping ship, Justin Timberlane, Lady Gaga, mob scenes, New York City, nuns, nypd, Riverside Park, russian revolutionaries, shades of green, solitaire, South China Sea, St. Patricks Day parade, Staten Island, stylus, tramp steamers, Upper West Side

• Throw The Lady a Sweater

  Normally I’m not averse to looking onto a rooftop of a building and seeing an unclothed female. Normally. However, here it is on New Years Eve and the temperature in New York City is about 20 F, with a wind chill of -36 F.  The wind from the Hudson River a few blocks away can…

  patrickjegan

  January 1, 2014

  Everyday Events, Things of Bauty

  angel gabriel, gates of heaven, naked female on rooftop, New Years Eve, New York City, Times Square

• The Man in the Steel Armor: A Monologue

  Some would think that it would be a boring existence to stand for decades in a plexiglass box wearing a suit of steel armor. Let me assure you that it is far from the truth.  I find it fascinating to watch the gawkers, the curious, the historians, the lovers and the caretakers as they stroll…

  patrickjegan

  August 25, 2013

  Holding onto the Past, Melancholy Thoughts, Memories

  Arms and Armor, art students, children, field trips, getting older, knights, loneliness, lost lovers, medieval history, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

• Where Are You Going, My Brown-Eyed Son?

  Oh, where are you going, my brown-eyed son? There you were, a small shadow on a monitor.  Small and washed by changing shades of black and white amid countless lines that made watching difficult. The Technician slowly moved the grey piece of equipment around the oiled skin of your mothers swollen abdomen.  There. Right there.…

  patrickjegan

  May 10, 2013

  Holding onto the Past

  A son, apartment sharing, birth of son, childhood, growing up, New York City