“Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.”Tennessee Williams It was Sunday, October 26, 1975, and I was at the reception of my Father’s marriage to his second and current wife, Lois, at the historic Hotel Elysée on East 54th Street in Manhattan. My date was a delightfully sweet and very pretty fifteen-year-old girl, Kathy […]
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You’re An Irish Poet by Mark R. Elsis
I was driving my taxi in Manhattan on a beautiful summer evening in 1981 when a man flagged me down. When I stopped, a woman and a man of about 60 years of age entered my taxi. As soon as they were seated, the first thing the man said to me wasn’t what their destination […]
Driving Brian Doyle-Murray To The Mudd Club by Mark R. Elsis
It was in the latter part of the magical summer of 1980. I was driving my taxi, and for the first time, I asked my opera singer girlfriend, Julia Madison, if she would like to go out with me for a few hours while I worked. Julia said she would love to go out driving […]