J. Bryan McGeever has taught Writing and Literature in New York City Public Schools for five years. His essays on NYC education recently appeared in Thomas Beller’s Lost and Found: Stories from New York. More...

You would think that a new year would bring a new outlook on life, particularly moving into my 71st year, but I just can’t help the feeling that our nation is slipping into a grand funk that will rival that of the 1930’s, the time we call More...

Funeral flowers are a visual expression of love, sympathy and respect. They are a means of lending support, and sharing the burden of grief. More...

One of the nice things that came out of the two years worth of literary arts festivals we did here in Rockaway (in 2007 and 2008) was all the writers, living on or near the peninsula, who turned up and joined in. More...

According to New York State data for 2003 there were 4 million cases of doctor diagnosed arthritis, and 21 percent of those with the disease were physically inactive. More...