Take a magic bean. Beans always work for me. Take a bean, feel better. Wasn’t that our motto as teenagers? This is an exercise in futility, I am afraid – no bean will get me ready for the New York Marathon in… Read More ›
Essays
My Life Before I Became Boring, A Documentary
I have decided, enough is enough; enough of this writing business; writing, writing, writing all of the damn time, month after month, year after year. I need a new pursuit. Something not so boring. Who reads this stuff anyway? Maybe I should be a… Read More ›
My New App
I downloaded a new application for my smart phone that’s a doomsday or death app. Interestingly enough, my friend Shaun, the mountain climber, told me about it while we were lifting weights at the gym. Ever since his heart attack, he… Read More ›
My Black Cat Moon
My black cat Moon with yellow lunar eyes has crawled up beside me. Moon often joins me when I am on my easy chair, so she knows exactly how to get comfortable, snuggled between the armrest and my thigh. Moon… Read More ›
Reading Like a Writer
Over the past week I read a book entitled “Reading like a Writer” by Francine Pose. I bought this paperback at our local bookstore because it offered to help me do exactly what I needed to do from now on. Not only… Read More ›
I was in a Car Accident Once
I was in a car accident once in which I didn’t sustain any injuries and my car was untouched. I live about seven easy minutes from my office, and at one point in my tiny commute, I get on the interstate… Read More ›
Time
Recently I have had problems with birthdays and especially my own. I spent this one in the skies ostensibly, flying to various cities to visit clients, and, I must admit, my family was not pleased at all as I didn’t answer… Read More ›
William, Marcus, and Eve
This is a story about William and Marcus and the night they met Eve. William and Marcus are from Durham, North Carolina — two kids literally out of thousands of teenagers in the county. William is 17 years old and… Read More ›
Mites and Hummingbirds
It turns out there is one species of mites that lives in the beaks of hummingbirds. As you no doubt remember from biology, the mite is the size of a little black spec, smaller even! When a hummingbird flits on… Read More ›
Reflections on Palo Verde and Nicaragua
It was one of those old timey airports that you used to see in the Martin and Lewis or Tony Curtis movies, where the stewardesses were all young and busty with tight uniforms and little caps and the idea of… Read More ›
The Road West was Invigorating
The road west was invigorating. I felt like a 21st century Daniel Boone. How nice, for once, to be heading west away from Interstate 95, away from the suffocating traffic and the grinding slowdowns, away from the endless progression of mega-cities, formidable in… Read More ›
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