Memory Stash

 New York The day began bright and sunny and cold! Kai, the Lyft driver who had yet again come to pick me up, took us to Hamilton Station. The train took us to Penn and the subway to the 81st Street. Straight into the Musuem of Natural History, which failed to impress me. The animals and cultural artifacts on display were cool, India was depicted inadequately. The Hall of the Universe, before which we heard a brief story of the creation of the universe narrated by Liam Neeson himself. Gleeful, I stared at the huge circular depression in front of me that served as the screen and that made me feel like a step further and I would be lost into the great cosmos. The Hall of Biodiversity had a life size whale and the trunk of a tree that dwarfed any other I have imagined ever. The dinosaurs were funky including my favorite triceratops. Back into the present world, we were hungry and like many of my beloved characters in movies, I was jonesing for a Gray's Papaya Hot Dog. So I got one! An...