Global Wahrman

draft I was in NYC on September 11th. By far the worst part was not that day, but the months afterwards as my fellow NYers put up posters ...

  draft   I realize you are too important to have a conversation with me, but I still think it is a mistake that you are not arming REDACTED...

draft I was discussing Fashion Week in NYC with Ken Perlin and the recent trends in models to come from Eastern Europe or the Midwest. ...

As readers of this blog know well, no event is random, and no situation should be assumed to be without consequence but all of them shoul...

When I lived in NYC in the 1990s I was lucky enough to live in some spectacular apartments.This is all due to friends who welcomed me to ...

My friend Stuart Cudlitz has passed away after a long illness. I know of Stuart through my friend Sally Syberg as she had worked at Co...

This essay is an indirect meditation on the very broad questions of what it is that makes a place desirable, or entertaining or pleasant....

One of the reasons I started with photography again after many years was because I noticed I seemed to have a large number of interesting f...

So I have a great friend in NY or I used to. We have known each other for decades but just in the last 5 years or so starting talking...

the rewrite The following essay does NOT contain any spoilers beyond a throw-away joke at the beginning of a play. Once upon a time...

[revised 11/26/2013] This was my first trip back to NYC since about 2004 or so. For my benefit more than anything else, these are my no...

When I was in New York, I had the opportunity to attend the November meeting of the oddly named "New York Tech Meetup" at NYU...

My bedroom in NYC.  Notice the Hudson River outside the window. I think I look like a cartoon character in this picture. ...

While we are on the subject of science education, c.f. the post on "Giant Intelligent Vegetable on Mars" , I am happy to see tha...

In the spirit of the holidays, I set out to write a short essay on what I had learned about the origins of our Midwinter holiday and its t...

So I am going to tell you a New York real estate story, the story of Columbia University's second campus. Their current location is th...

It used to be the thing to do to go to the Museum of Natural History the night before the Macy's Parade and watch them set up, which w...