Earlier this month on Facebook, I wrote: One of my brothers can build you a great-looking house. The other can wire up all the electricity, making it bright and temperate. And then I can hole up in your spare room to write pithy Facebook posts, emerging occasionally to check your cupboards for graham crackers. True […]
New song: “Sober as Sunrise”
I’m aware of my tendency to get hooked on whatever gives me some comfort: As a kid in need of distraction, I’d haul library books home 30 at a time. I’ve gone through a whole series of food obsessions, from Red Vines and Twix as a boy to Genisoy protein bars and Arizona Green Tea […]
New song: “Screaming Soccer Dad”
In the great karmic balance of the universe, my over-the-top pride in avoiding all team sports as an adolescent came back to bite me, as an adult, with the installation of an equally over-the-top soccer field (with stadium lights!) in the lot just behind our back fence. Since the living room and bedroom windows look […]
New song: “Gone Too Soon”
A couple months ago, our neighborhood experienced one of those sudden, shocking losses that quietly rattle one’s sense of order and justice. A bright, free-spirited young woman gone well before her time – and not in some big, cataclysmic way that makes headlines all about town, but in the simpler way of ‘here one day, […]
New song: “This Old Neighborhood”
Here’s a song about settling into one of those sleepy old neighborhoods where many of the inhabitants are still original. And then, with the passage of time, watching it turn over and become something new. If you catch it right on the cusp, you don’t even have to be there that long to see the […]
New song: “Stronger Where I Broke”
Sometimes you have to hit the bottom in order to bounce back. In Kazimierz Dabrowski’s theory of personality development, psychological tension and anxiety are seen as key to growth. Per Wikipedia’s nutshelling of Positive Disintegration: Dabrowski saw these disintegrations as a key element in the overall developmental process. Crises challenge our status quo and cause […]
New song: “Everybody’s Got a Chance”
This isn’t a holiday song per se, but it does seem fitting for a season in which people embrace their kindest, most charitable impulses. Well, some people do. Others elbow strangers in the face for flat-screen TVs and get way too drunk at office parties. And, you know, that’s okay too. We’re all just running […]
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