A friend of mine called me last night from Colorado. I missed the call and he left a voicemail. He was feeling lonely at his remote cabin in the mountains over Aspen. This sounds like the complaints of the wealthy, but my friend is a school teacher and this is no personal ski lodge. Anyway, [...]
I am very much a New Yorker now. But before I could make a place for myself here, I first had to learn that I didn’t have one.
The day I learned that I did not belong in New York was the day of the black out in 2003. It was a week after [...]
He was totally hanging at that bar at the South Pole before you were, Poser.
I generally find nostalgia to be the most pathetic and sad of all emotions. Certainly, everyone experiences it, but it should be treated as a moral weakness not to be given in to, like the urge to commit infidelity or [...]
For some people, the only way they survive is by irritating you in the line at the bank.
Sing For God And Country!
Example – We were on the subway recently, my wife and I, and one of those people who don’t understand the point of headphones got on. If you live in a dense urban [...]
This will make sense by the end of the post. Kinda.
A couple of weeks back I did a reading at Blaise Allysen Kearsley’s fantastic series “How I Learned.” This was a fun show and I found myself in great company. Blaise is an excellent host and she puts together a great program. The theme [...]