India at Shea Stadium

Two years ago, our daughter India was diagnosed with PDD-NOS – an Autism Spectrum Disorder. After two years of intense therapy and lots of support from organizations dedicated to families of children with Autism, India still has some trouble with speech [...]

Picked this up from Dyanna at MySpace…

10 years ago – April 27 1997

1.) How old were you? 27

2.) Where did you go to school? One semester removed from Jersey City State College, where I met Salomé.

3.) Where did you work? Poets & Writers

4.) Where did you live? Jersey City, NJ and/or [...]

Beyond Salomé and the kids’ birthdays and our wedding anniversary, I’m not very good at remembering specific dates, but 5/3/2005 will always be a memorable one because that’s the day India was diagnosed with autism*. “Pervasive Developmental Disorder-Not Otherwise Specified” (PDD-NOS), to be specific, the catch-all term for a laundry list of autism-related and autism-like disorders that, I think, is [...]

Me, Self-Portrait

Back in my early poetry days, at the very beginning in the summer of ’97, I wrote the majority of my poems sitting at the shadowy bar in Botanica, a pint of Brooklyn Brown always at hand as my pen scribbled furiously in my notebook.

Tonight, a [...]