I wrote this a while back. It was lost in my ever-growing Drafts tab before I ever got a chance to punch Publish. It’s a little dated now, but I put in the work, so here it is … The Russian president, who is a former KGB agent and an all-around bad guy, is meeting… Read More Chilling Out in an Unchill World
I do some work, maybe once a week if I’m lucky and can get out, from a coffee shop. I say coffee shop because it sounds a little exotic; some dark and cozy spot with hipsters reading books and surfing their phones, the smell of rich java in the air, some gluten-free muffins in the… Read More Scenes from a coffee shop
When you’re young and invincible, which I’m pretty sure I once was, health insurance sits on your “List of Things to Consider … Someday,” slightly below stashing cash into a 401k and way above picking out a burial plot. I’m young! I’m invincible! I’ve never spent a day in the hospital in my life! It’s… Read More It’s just not healthy
As parents, we teach. It’s kind of our duty. We try to guide our kids through the rapids of their young lives before, you know, the canoe hits the waterfall. As parents of an only child … hoo, boy. The teaching never stops, simply because the ratio of students to teachers in our household is… Read More Ask for the puppy
My mom called it “gravy meat,” which is pretty much exactly what it was. It began with a pound of ground beef, as inexpensive as ol’ Mom could find, browned in a pan on a gas range in our tiny, mousey — literally, with mice — galley kitchen in our central Delaware home. A little… Read More Funny food
My annual golf trip with my brothers is this weekend, and I am approaching it like I always do; ill prepared and hardly giving a damn about how bad I’m liable to be. Hardly. Some day, some day soon, it would be nice to drive over to Pawleys Island, just south of Myrtle Beach, and… Read More Just be the damn ball
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