Wrestling with my wants
A few stale phrases — chestnuts, really — of my mother’s came to mind on a recent walk with my [...]
Daddy done gone
Robert Frost staked out a childhood spot as a swinger of birches. Me, I was a Frankenstein swinger. Long before [...]
Wordplay in academe
Gosh, but aren't we humans dazzling apes sometimes! This paragon among animals, with snappy synapses aplenty. And sometimes these brainy [...]
Lend me your ears
Now, I'm not opposed to grandmas (or grandpas) on principle. I am, however, allergic to ageism and stereotyping, especially as [...]
Goodbye, year of the skibidi toilet
If architecture is “frozen music,” an American public middle school building must at least be, I don't know, a blue [...]
Seeking professional huggers
I have a hyperbolic fuckton of reasons to need a hug. Or maybe just a dozen. These reasons extend from [...]
Naming what’s lost
To forestall insomnia, I don't count sheep, but I do sleep with one. His name is BaaBaa O'Riley, and he's [...]
Love and donuts
The void in my stomach didn't make its presence known until about halfway through eight 400 meter sprints. A six-pack [...]
Some pig, and his best bud
Human beings may be the most highly evolved of all animals, and yet to peek into the other world they [...]
A flea eviction
A story about a 44-million-year-old louse brought me abruptly to my own annus miserabilis in the form of another scrawny [...]