âI Was 10 Blocks Into My Walk When I Saw a Tall Man Striding Southâ
A mysterious, elegant man, a quick cut and more reader tales of New York City in this weekâs Metropolitan Diary.
July 18, 2021, 3:00 a.m. ET
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Dear Diary:
The new commute started in November, a gray, sleeting month that was all the more dreary because the job in Stamford that I had enjoyed for two years had been moved to New York.
I hate commuting, but when a boss who works you hard but makes you laugh asks you to try it and pays your expenses to do so, thatâs just what you do.
We re prepared for it to last a long time : Duke, DUP leadership petition for new election to certify workers union
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Total lack of empathy : Complaints detail toll of CT power outages after Tropical Storm Isaias
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Andrea Ollivierre inspects damage to her vehicle after a tree fell onto it during tropical storm Isaias on Thomas Street in West Haven, Conn., on Tuesday Aug. 4, 2020.Christian Abraham / Hearst Connecticut Media
A quadriplegic cancer survivor was left without power as the town s first selectwoman tried in vain to get the Eversource power company to prioritize the resident s case.
In another town, 200 roads were blocked for a week, putting scores of residents in danger of being closed off from emergency medical and law enforcement personnel.
Total lack of empathy : Complaints detail toll of CT power outages after Tropical Storm Isaias
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Andrea Ollivierre inspects damage to her vehicle after a tree fell onto it during tropical storm Isaias on Thomas Street in West Haven, Conn., on Tuesday Aug. 4, 2020.Christian Abraham / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
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Tree and wires down on Route 37 in New Fairfield following Tropical Storm Isaias.Contributed photo / Maria Evans, New Fairfield Emergency Management directorShow MoreShow Less
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Crews examine downed trees and power lines knocked down during Tropical Storm Isaias on Deep Valley Road in North Stamford, Conn. Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020. While power had been restored to most Stamford residents since the storm hit Tuesday Aug. 4, a small number still remained without power.Tyler Sizemore / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
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and elsewhere. Matty is a Vice Presidential Fellow at the University of Utah where he is pursuing a PhD in English. He currently serves as the Managing Editor of
Quarterly West and the Wasatch Writers in the Schools Coordinator.
INTRODUCTION
Write patiently and read generously. The sustainable poet quickly learns patience, whether that be in the writing process and the arc of an individual poem or the hellscape that is the submissions process. As a young writer, I allowed my desire for affirmation or belonging to lead me to submit work that I now (and perhaps then) understand was not ready. Most of that work was mercifully rejected, but some of those poems found homes, and now I have some not-entirely-horrific-but-fairly-sloppy ditties living out there in the dark expanse of the digital ether. Perhaps that’s one of the many reasons I’ve embraced a practice of reading generously. To read generously is not to automatically support a writer or their work or to
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