Musings Archives - Richard Rothman

Subway Diary #3: Life Underground in the Age of Corona

by Richard Rothman | Mar 23, 2020 | Musings

This certainly isn’t an entry I could have imagined writing as the third installment of my Subway Diary–an ode to my love of the New York City subways. But what a difference a few weeks can make— and not just for Joe Biden and Bernie. The heretofore...

Subway Diary # 2: The Underground Banjo Player

by Richard Rothman | Mar 16, 2020 | Musings

This is the second in a series of Subway Diary entries: snapshots of life’s noteworthy experiences underground in NYC. The events described here took place in late January as I zig-zagged my way around Manhattan on crowded subways before COVID-19 restricted my ability...

Subway Diary #1

by Richard Rothman | Feb 13, 2020 | Featured Post, Musings

A lot of people these days bitch about our New York City subways–with reason. The MTA’s finger-in the-dike campaign to repair our antique system continually scrambles the system and peoples’ lives: They’re late for work; they can’t get home when they’re weary...

Watching My Trees Grow

by Richard Rothman | Jan 21, 2020 | Musings

I like to think of them as my trees, two sibling white birches rising out of the bank of Thompson Lake in Poland, Maine. They arch towards the water, just a few yards beyond the screen porch from which I’ve watched them grow since their infancy. I probably shouldn’t...