I have spent probably 17 of the last 20 Christmas nights sleeping in a too-small bed in a strange room, going to sleep to the bells of St. William ringing down on a modest two-story house on the West Side of Cincinnati. It is my in-laws’ house, the house where Mary Jo grew up, the place where her parents raised… Read More Home for the holidays
I grew up on newspapers. My dad worked for the Middletown [Del.] Transcript as a young man, setting type and running the press. Years later, he’d return to the Transcript. It was his last job, too. When we moved to Willow Grove, we had the Delaware State News delivered to our house every day, slipped into a… Read More Pick up the paper
I’ve had a week to digest what happened last Tuesday night, a week to wrap my head around this thing. I got nothing. Donald Trump won. Is shouldn’t be that hard to handle. Donald fricking Trump won. He’s going to be President of the United States. I mean, I guess I’m a little angry, though it’s hard… Read More He blew his chance
Here we are. Stomachs in knots and bone dead-tired, we made it. In a few hours, we’ll have a new president. All I can think is, Free at Last, Free at Last, Thank God Almighty I’m Free at Last After a deafening and depressing election season overrun with emails, gutter talk, late-night tweets, leaks, serious accusations and ridiculous claims, we’re ready… Read More The End is Here
The whole idea of 10,000 steps, as it’s understood among the health conscious, evidently originated in Japan in the 1960s with something called manpo-kei. I’d like to report that manpo-kei has some deep, inscrutable meaning — he who walks well moves like the dragonfly; or, with each step a life is enriched in 10,000 ways. But near as… Read More An ode to 10,000
I’m on the elliptical Friday morning, sweating like a fat New Yorker on the D train at 5 o’clock in late July — I’m really, really sweaty, is what I’m saying — and I look up at the TV and see the calm, cool, preternaturally well-groomed Mike Pence on the Today show set. (Pence’s hair… Read More Sweating it out
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