No 7: THE SMALL TOWN SHUFFLE

PHOTO BY FAYE RAAD

KATIE KERN

There was a small jewelry store on the corner of mainstreet

5 pizza places snuggled into a mile radius

Construction took years where it would take weeks here

Moms took their deluxe SUVs to their manicure appointments

Parents lined up densely on the metro platform waiting to go into work while simultaneously nannies walked off the trains

The Westchester morning shuffle begins

Yoga pants fill the only Starbucks in town

Kids shake standing on their cul-de-sacs in the cold before congregating on the school buses

In the afternoon, middle schoolers strut to rite aid to get bags of candy

Soccer practice and dance class take up the evenings and at dusk, parents flood back into the town from the city

This same small town dance, I haven’t witnessed in four years, starts up again the next morning