The End Is As Anticlimactic As The Beginning Was An Inferno
The denouement of an already-over relationship can be brutal. Recriminations, cruel asides tossed out in the heat of the moment, the apex...
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RUBBER HEART
My friend Alicia told me I had a rubber heart. Another relationship had ended/failed/sputtered out in a mad flurry of imagined slights,...
The Fight of the Day
…because you have to fight that voice every single day, that goddamned voice that you know isn’t really yours but it’s so loud ALL THE...
27 Years of Pearl Jam (So Far)
I’m a little banged up as I (re)write this. I saw Pearl Jam at Fenway last night, the first of two shows they’re playing at the iconic...
The Mayor of North Chandler Street...
August 28, 2018, 7:30pm: Walking Pearl on this beautifully hot and humid late summer evening, neither of us in any hurry, just enjoying...
Do Sh*t That Matters
Do Sh*t That Matters The perpetual anxiety brought about by permanent connectivity. Email madness and jargon gibberish. Feverish attempts...
The Opposite Of Death
The dark voices had been whispering their permanent sweet-nothings again. “It’s time to go,” they claim. And, “haven’t you had enough of...
The Best Thing I Learned In 2017
“Let it go.” You hear this advice all the time. Anything that causes disappointment, anger, frustration, sadness… “let it go” becomes the...
Elliott, Two Years Gone
My father died two years ago today. I'm sitting in a hotel room in Harrison, NY. Eddie's getting married tonight. We've been friends for...
Goodbye, Old Brown Dog
An old brown Lab was lying motionless on the tile floor of the vet’s office when I walked in this morning. I’d come to pick up Pearl’s...
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