A Walk in Brooklyn -2010 (A tour in pictures)

One day back in 2010 my friend Karen Good and I decided to walk through Brooklyn. I took another similar walk with my friend Debbie Cowell - and I'll be posting those pictures soon as well. I've been going through my hard disc and have found so much material - audio recordings, pictures, video - I'm going to start presenting them here as a sort of record of what I've been up to during the last few years. These were taken with a disposable camera and capture accurately the diversity and openness of Brooklyn folks. Enjoy!

All your needs in 1 store

We walked into a local bar and was welcomed 



We met a group of Georgians

Who were very happy to meet us

a Chinese Laundry - Newkirk Avenue I believe

So many different cultures



Brooklyn

A Puerto-Rican family- Newark Avenue

Our Georgian friends 

Karen drinking a beer

Local man posting for us

Karen and her present husband before they were married.


sidewalk

storefront

Yemenis Bodega 

Popular posts from this blog

Bandit Queen Press is Proud to Announce Its Second Title!

Image
BANDIT QUEEN PRESS ANNOUNCES THE RELEASE OF GOOD WORKS A paperback collection of novel excerpts, short stories, memoirs, poems, song lyrics, original sketches, paintings and photographs by English-speaking women living in Denmark. GOOD WORKS can be purchased from ATHENEUM INTERNATIONAL BOOKSHOP, Nørregade 6, 1165 København K, tlf (45)33 126970. On-line orders at www.atheneum.dk FOR ENGLISH SPEAKERS phone the store or email books@atheneum.dk with their request!! Support Bandit Queen Press! “Refreshingly varied, yet with a common thread….10 women, all accomplished writers, celebrate in 10 individual voices the expatriate experience - in prose, poetry, images and song. A valuable, and enjoyable, addition to the literature of displacement and assimilation.” Heather Spears, award-winning Canadian poet “To leave one's home country can be an exhilarating and even frightening adventure that cries out for expression. Good Works puts words to the expatriate experience in all its frus...
Read more

Here We Go Again...

Image
The fact of the matter is that no matter how well you have adjusted to your new life abroad, you will always be visited by a nagging longing to go home. This longing does not reveal itself constantly, but instead chooses to hide behind your happiness and optimism until, well, you realize that although you may even think of your new country as home, you will never, ever be really home until-- Until what? My theory is that this longing will always surface and that you must get better at combating it. The truth is, I can't move back to the U.S. now. If I didn't have a child, it would be another story... This weekend my son sprained his ankle. But before we knew it was a sprain, I had to take him to the emergency room to ensure that it was not broken. We showed up at what was a very quiet emergency room. We both were well-armed: I had my students' work to correct, my son his psp and new Tony Hawk game. The wait was not long and the staff, pleasant. "You speak perfect Danis...
Read more