About
Greetings. I’m Ira. I’m originally from Queens and currently reside in Brooklyn, New York with my wife and our dog.
By day I'm a freight elevator operator in a commercial building in Manhattan and by night I'm occasionally a floor manager at a bar in Brooklyn. I didn’t come here to write about that though. That stuff is to pay the bills so I can do stuff like this.
I’ve used various content management systems and blogging platforms over the years and recently decided on a fresh start. I recently switched to a CMS called write.as, sat down, and started to write.
So, why a blog? And why now? Because I don’t think the medium is dead, I love the form, and the world wide web is still the best thing. One of my resolutions for 2025 is to write more and to publish stuff on here at least weekly. Another was to not spend too much time on the things peripheral to writing and publishing that are not actual writing and publishing. You can reliably expect a weekly journal, photo essay, link blog, or some combination of the three here in 2025. Essays at least quarterly starting in March.
-Ira
Contact: ira at iracogan dot com
This page was last updated on January 11, 2025