aging, Guest Posts
Keep On Rockin’
No one has ever compared me to Neil Young. No one but me.
April 28, 2024Latest Posts
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Books, Guest PostsScreenshot of a Literary Reading
I latch onto the word bear. That’s it. That’s what I’m doing right now, bearing life, bearing art, bearing the chill in this room.
April 24, 2024 -
Grief, Guest PostsReturn of Saturn
In astrology, Saturn takes 27-29 years to complete one full orbit around the sun and return to the same zodiac sign it was in when you were born.
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Guest Posts, Tough ConversationsCut
He asks about the English, if it is correct. I exhale and note that some phrase is impossible in English. The whole thing is impossible, but I don’t say that.
April 17, 2024 -
Guest PostsDisruption
The journey was long and tiring, but I was eager to see the place I once called home. As I drove through the village, I was struck by the stark contrast between the present and the past.
April 14, 2024 -
Guest Posts, RelationshipsHow I Met the Love of My Life on a Small Ship to Antarctica
During all this time my fascination with Antarctica did not diminish. That all these tumultuous developments in my life should have resulted from a visit to Antarctica was really no surprise to me.
April 10, 2024 -
Guest Posts, travelA Tasting Menu, Belgian Style
I’m not Belgian. I have no Belgian roots. Yet, I experienced the country intimately through its food, through the consumption of carefully curated ingredients into delectable delights.
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Guest Posts, RelationshipsCrossing the Threshold
A prayer written by Reinhold Niebuhr, the great theologian, eventually became the famous serenity prayer, a staple of all the 12-step programs. It became mine.
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Guest Posts, RelationshipsThe Book Exchange
“He stole my book,” I moaned to my friends and co-workers, my bodega guy, my bodega cat. Anyone who would listen. “He stole my book. I love that book.”
March 26, 2024 -
Guest PostsImmigrants in America: Notes from the Irish Shadows
My Irish roots, as seemingly impossible as a rose in the desert, survived and thrived, despite the harshest of conditions.
March 17, 2024