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Love as Solidarity: Filipino Writers and Artists in Queens

Nancy C wrote 3 months ago: On a cold winter afternoon in February, the warmest place in Queens, NY may have been the Bayanihan … more →

Tags: Literary Happenings, Love, Solidarity, Filipino, Community, Asian American Writers Workshop, Bayanihan Filipino Community Center, Filipino poetry, valentine's day

The Heralded Arrival of After4 comments

TK wrote 3 months ago: Okay HGTV junkies. Okay aspiring home renovators, interior designers, homeowners. And yes, even you … more →

Tags: kitchen renovation, ivy square woodworking, whitestone contracting, broadway kitchen and bath, smithtown appliance, bamboo cabinets

Snow & Ice Wishes

westernqueensland wrote 1 year ago: 1. I had three wishes/ Fear, desirability/ & mortal power/ #haiku 1b. I had three wishes/ Desira … more →

Tags: snow, NY, Art, Photography, spirituality, cold, Poetry, dream, New York

Corrections-Bus #Haikus5 comments

westernqueensland wrote 2 years ago: “Corrections” prison/ Buses drive to court each day/ Past my brick building/ #haiku On T … more →

Tags: Photography, Poetry, Poem, Queens, New York, Rikers Island

Sunrise Bakery & Cafe: Big Fluffy Baos5 comments

chubbychinesegirl wrote 2 years ago: Dear Food Diary: Last Sunday afternoon, I just happen to walk by Sunrise Bakery & Cafe, hunger s … more →

Tags: Red bean, Elmhurst, Sunrise Bakery, sweet as honey, steamed bao, queens blvd, Chinese Bakery

Engeline's: Filipino Pork-a-licious Feast12 comments

chubbychinesegirl wrote 2 years ago: Dear Food Diary: I’ve only had Filipino food a handful of times, so when my one and only Filip … more →

Tags: Filipino Food, engeline's, sizzling sigsig, SINIGANG NA BABOY, tokwa at baboy, Philippines cuisine, chicharon bulaklak, chicken adobo, bicol express

Spring Ennui5 comments

westernqueensland wrote 3 years ago: Spring Structure View Lament As I stand on the hillock behind my house looking over the gentle slope … more →

Tags: Sunnyside queens, cold, springtime, pre dawn photography, aging, Big Six, city, Poetry, spring

The Kids Right Now2 comments

westernqueensland wrote 4 years ago: 4/21/2008 5:57 AM Here is another gem from Lennox to keep with the “Daddy remembering is like fish t … more →

Tags: NY, kids, Academics, Father & Son, Love, Youth, urban youth, Queens, city

“Queens Boulevard Driftwood”

westernqueensland wrote 4 years ago: In my annual calender, on the page I started the poem were these two “bon mots:” “the truth broke my … more →

Tags: Sunnyside queens, NY, Art, Photography, spirituality, cold, outdoors, Academics, Poetry

Update and a Quiz7 comments

westernqueensland wrote 4 years ago: 1/26/2008 6:23 AM (sorry, this is a long one) Yesterday, Friday the 25th of January, 2008, Lennox ca … more →

Tags: NY, Photography, kids, Academics, 1st day of school, LaGuardia CC, Reading, Love, aging

Offspring Update13 comments

westernqueensland wrote 4 years ago: Mason’s Cameraphone Portrait The kids have been on my mind lately, as much as I have anything … more →

Tags: Sunnyside queens, NY, kids, Academics, 1st day of school, Father & Son, urban youth, Wealth, Queens

Happy New You14 comments

westernqueensland wrote 4 years ago:   12/31/07 05:35:55 AM Where has the year gone? Has it gone into the trash heap or the archives … more →

Tags: Sunnyside queens, NY, Art, Photography, spirituality, kids, outdoors, New York Public Schools, Teaching

Prophet Housing

westernqueensland wrote 4 years ago: 12/18/07 04:56:38 AM So our new lives in our new apartment have started. I took Chandler to meet Ane … more →

Tags: Academics, aging, Ambition, antidepressants, Apartments, Big Six, city, Colonialism, consumerism

Moving Impotence 3 comments

westernqueensland wrote 4 years ago: 12/14/0710:46:52 AM So the movers are packing away and Linda is away at the other apartment cleaning … more →

Tags: Sunnyside queens, NY, Photography, local anthropology, antidepressants, New York Public Schools, Ambition, Academics, Poetry

Hijabed Air Force ROTC Cadet (Poem)

westernqueensland wrote 4 years ago:   We’re moving tomorrow and I found two poems I had written that I thought I had keyed in.  I … more →

Tags: Sunnyside queens, NY, Art, Photography, local anthropology, outdoors, antidepressants, LaGuardia CC, elevated

Surveillance3 comments

westernqueensland wrote 4 years ago: Here is the space that we will move into. In order to move here we have to fit a certain number of c … more →

Tags: NY, Ambition, housing, Queens, Big Six, Hosing Decision, Tower and Gardens

Big Move (Sunnyside to Woodside)21 comments

westernqueensland wrote 4 years ago: OK, we got the call. It looks like we’ll be moving to Woodside. Before I go into the particulars of … more →

Tags: Sunnyside queens, NY, New York Public Schools, LaGuardia CC, Public Housing, Wealth, housing, Big Six, Hosing Decision

The End of Kiko's Patron (Reflections Back to Queens)

westernqueensland wrote 4 years ago: We went and got the kids helmets for their bikes yesterday  Lennox rode her training wheel bike all … more →

Tags: Sunnyside queens, NY, Art, Photography, outdoors, elevated, Immigration, Queens, city

Kiko's Patron (Reindeer Games III) and a Walk in Woodside

westernqueensland wrote 4 years ago: We had so much fun at Coney Island. But First, A Walk in Woodside with my best girl Yesterday was an … more →

Tags: Sunnyside queens, NY, Photography, California VS Outdoors, local anthropology, outdoors, Asian Diaspora, university village, UC Berkeley


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