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 blogging platforms over the years and recently decided on a fresh start. I deleted everything. Then, I 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 I love the world wide web. One of my resolutions for 2025 is to write more and to publish stuff on here regularly. Another was to not spend too much time on things peripheral to writing and publishing that are not actual writing and publishing. You can expect journals, photo essays, link blogs, and the occasional essay here.
-Ira
Contact: ira at iracogan dot com
This page was last updated on February 20, 2025