Sarah Firisen

Oct 1, 2024 | mrbellersneighborhood.com | Claude Barilleaux |Thomas Beller |Sarah Firisen |Alex Wolf

I was only thirteen years old when I decided that I must live in New York City. Fred Astaire made me do it. Watching his old films in the early 1960s on our local tv station while growing up in the Cajun Country of Southwest Louisiana, I saw a glamorous and sophisticated world far different than the folksy, rural one surrounding me.

Jun 19, 2023 | 3quarksdaily.com | Sarah Firisen

During the height of lockdown, I was stressed. We were all stressed. We were scared of getting sick and terrified that the most vulnerable among our friends and family would get sick. We were anxious and bored, but many of us, more than anything, were lonely. Very, very lonely. My husband worked out of the house at night and slept during the day. So even though I was one of the lucky ones and did have another human presence in the house, that presence mainly manifested as a lump under the bedclothes.

Apr 24, 2023 | 3quarksdaily.com | Sarah Firisen

Who doesn't love a three-day weekend? If an extra day to relax isn't good enough, the following week always seems to go quickly, making a Memorial Day, Labor Day, or a bank holiday in the UK, the gift that keeps on giving. Of course, most of us should consider ourselves lucky only to have to work a 5-day week. No law of the universe says a work week has to be 5 days.