Based in Brooklyn, Timothy Bay has freelanced for dozens of newspapers and national publications, including The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Newsday, Chicago Tribune, Self, Harper’s Bazaar, and Omni. He is also the author of books for young readers, and has contributed to several anthologies, including The People’s Almanac.

As a travel writer, he has written for the inflight magazines and is the author of a Frommer guide.

After graduating from Columbia Journalism, he worked as newspaper reporter on The Providence Journal, and as an editor/writer on both consumer and business trade magazines. For many years, he was a public affairs officer at one of the CUNY senior colleges. Most recently, he has worked in advertising.

His greatest inspiration for this piece was growing up in New York in those long-ago dark ages, before the advent of electronic wizardry, in the infancy of the industrial/entertainment complex when a $25 Christmas gift certificate to F.A.O. Schwartz was bliss.

Blog Entries by Timothy Bay

Cheney's Last Hurrah: No Light at the End of the Dark Side

Posted January 13, 2009 | 04:15 PM (EST)


Where is Dick Cheney? It's been over a month since the inauguration and the White House HR office has been waiting....and waiting...and waiting for the former VP to appear for his exit interview and to hand over the keys to his office.

Finally, there is a knock at the...

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The Shape of Toys to Come

1 Comments | Posted December 29, 2008 | 04:23 PM (EST)


Disappointing toy sales this year were felt all the way up to the North Pole. Acknowledging that the bears are running with the reindeer this Christmas, Santa Claus is coming to Washington next week to ask for a bailout. House Republicans are against the bailout since they see it as...

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