Among the 63 abandoned posts listed under “drafts” in my WordPress blog account is a 1,480-word bear of a thing that I knocked out a couple weeks ago. It is — or was, I guess, or maybe more accurately, never will be — on the upcoming election. That drafts tab, let me point out, is… Read More Ooops
The whole idea behind volunteering in the first place was to give a little something back, to provide what I figured is a much-needed civic service, to get a grasp of a teensy piece of the inner workings of this clearly not always smooth-working democracy of ours. It’d be a learning experience, this volunteering thing,… Read More Clerks
A week or so before Christmas, I was browsing one of those trendy boutique shops that have popped up around our new downtown, desperately searching for a one-of-a-kind present for that special someone in my life. At that point, though, a week before Christmas, any kind of anywhere-close-to-unique token would have worked. For anyone on… Read More This Is It
And now for something completely different. —**— We are in a coffee shop in the suburbs of Atlanta, one of those places with two or three thick wooden tables that seat six or eight people, a bunch of soft chairs in various tiny groupings throughout the space, a set of wooden stairs leading to nowhere,… Read More And Now …
In early May, I broke my finger, a boo-boo from bad basketball that, at the time, was certainly painful but, it seemed, destined to be not much more than that. In a few weeks time, I figured, I would be back on the court, back on the keyboard, back at everything I was doing (however… Read More On Allen Iverson and RatWoman
Somewhere in the depths of the closet in my home office — among the baseballs and bobbleheads, the old books and outdated media guides, behind a bunch of untouched DVDs and about a thousand plastic cups from various sporting events — is a professional-grade, lightly used single lens reflex Nikon camera that I bought at… Read More Yello
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