Savvy Saving Bytes

I didn’t need a calendar to tell me Labor Day was on the horizon. The corn told me. Up until two weeks ago the corn on the cob at the farmer’s market had been pristinely golden. Then the week before last, a few brownish kernels popped up along the golden rows. And last weekend, I [...]

Selling stuff on the streets of New York City is for the strong, the tough and the relatively young. Along with the daily setting-up, selling and repacking of merchandise, vendors also have to deal with the city’s light-fingered and mentally unbalanced. So when I saw her selling used books on a Lexington Avenue street corner, [...]

All comfy and relaxed, I was watching a movie way past bedtime when a mouse streaked into my living room and disappeared under the couch. I have lived in my apartment a zillion years with not a mouse in sight, so this critter brought me to my feet FAST.  As I leaped up, he dashed [...]

The first time I saw an image of the weird looking Chinese bus — a gigantic articulated vehicle transporting 1,200 riders in the upper level while passenger cars swooped through the open lower level as the bus traveled along the highway — I thought, what the heck IS this thing? The closer I looked though [...]

During the night at the end of a brutally hot July, the sizzling summer of hell finally took a powder. When I left my apartment the next morning I walked straight into a deliciously cool breeze. It had been so long since I had hit the street and not been assaulted by a blinding wall [...]