Levi and I were never meant to be a thing. She was to be my one-year foster dog, but I have always been found by love when I was least expecting it ( Read more... )

They did not say "Bleecker St." on the news yesterday, but the murder they described as being at "College and Sherbourne" was on Bleecker St. Where I live. Thursday night I was in bed when I heard the gun shots. I recognised the first one as a gun shot, but then there were so many loud bangs, in two clusters, that I un-recognised them. I decided ( Read more... )

There have been two fatal stabbings on my street in the last two months. One a block to the South of me, and one a block to the North of me. In the most recent stabbing, on December 20th, most news sources reported:

Police would only say that one of the victims was a man and couldn’t confirm if the other was male or female.

My phone started ( Read more... )