Author Archives: Jamie

On Vacation

No I didn’t take this picture on vacation, I took it in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, but it’s some of what Deborah and I plan to do while we’re here in sunny Atlantic City. We just checked in. See you in a few days.

That’s Where The Locals Go

The Buildings Are Melting

Last week. This week. How hot was it? It was so hot, entire buildings were melting. I had a hard time enticing Deborah to come outside with me. She wanted to stay inside our air conditioned apartment and study Portuguese. “I’ve been slacking off,” she said, which may or may not be true. “You can [...]

Blogging isn’t dead, it just smells funny.

I’m tempted to sign up for this class just to see what they’re teaching and who they’re teaching it to. Then again, I guess I wasn’t that curious, since I didn’t even bother to take one of the free catalogs. I need a new hobby. In other news, Deborah won her suit against her non-paying [...]

See You In Court

After waiting a couple of months for a check — submitting and re-submitting an invoice — it became clear that one of Deborah’s clients had no intention of paying her for the bookkeeping work she did. “I should always go with my gut,” Deborah said, referring to the fact that she had a bad feeling [...]