A Life and Death Promise

At his funeral back in 2010, I made a quiet promise to Joe that I would read his favorite book, The Count of Monte…

What Happens to Wrath Deferred?

How do you do anger?

Is how we experience anger a unique identifier to who we are as individuals, like a fingerprint or our DNA? Or is it what connects us to one another, a shared and common thread of experience across people, across cultures…

Annie RUOK? RUOK Annie?

The fallout from recent celebrity suicides of designer Kate Spade and culinary thinkmaster Anthony Bourdain has stirred an odd assortment of ingredients in the cultural stew. First is the genuine sorrow, sometimes bordering on agony, expressed by those who loved one or both of what…

Muzak To My White Ears

So, I live in one of those grocery story wastelands. Pretty nice neighborhood surrounded by not-as-nice neighborhoods (a topic for another day) means that the people who sell food don’t give a shit about any of us in this ‘hood. The large demographic of underclass minorities means we get…

He Stopped Loving Crows Today

Maybe I’m ashamed of liking the Counting Crows.

We all have bands we’ll lay down on the train tracks to defend. Their music is a hill of pride and devotion worth dying on. I can think of dozens of bands I will aggressively defend against insult and…

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