Pearl River      I was late to the game, and it took a New Yorker article to introduce me formally to Maggie Rogers, a young singing and pop sensation.  It wasn’t my first meeting.  Often when I’m home, having walked the dog and eating my oatmeal in the predawn, I ask Alexa to play alternative …

            New Orleans      In New Orleans, Lucha, my Australian Shepherd, and I walk to the Mississippi River and back every morning in the predawn.  She knows the drill and has her favorites stops along the route where she likes to sniff and piddle, but both of us, now about the same age in dog …