Maybe I should turn in, but there’s a level of softness, and emotional rawness, that happens when I’m under-slept. I also get a bit loopy. On a beautiful February day in Queens, a Monday, I loaded up my car and headed for home. The weather was gorgeous, the sun was shining, and it had been […]
Read more "Off (Free Write)"This fall was a bit of a wedding season. The first wedding was in Maine; the bride was a grad school friend. We reconnected during the winter, and she told me I should come. The invitation followed. I’d lived with this person for a month when I was in-between living situations in New York. It […]
Read more "2 Weddings"“I thought you were done.” It started with a simple request. “Come to Manchester (Connecticut) for Thanksgiving, and run the road race,” my friend said. I’m not sure why I was resistant to the idea. After all, this was a close friend, someone that I lived with on more than one occasion. Maybe it had […]
Read more "Thanksgiving in Manchester"“Do you feel pressure?” “No, well, maybe a little bit.” “Why?” “There’s pressure to see if we connect.” I was asked the above question during a somewhat recent date. On the whole, the conversation flowed. In our conversations, we talked about little things like where we had lived, but the conversation also went deeper than […]
Read more "Glimpses (Part I)"The cold nights begin, as that winter air creeps in, slowly but surely. I do love this time of year, as the days are warm, and the nights are cool. It’s great weather for sleeping, which is something I used to really struggle with, and sometimes still do. For the most part, I’ve learned to […]
Read more "Labor Day"I just can’t seem to stay away… In the book I’m working on, I write about my first trip to Portland in vivid detail. I ate good food, listened to some good music, and experienced nature in abundance. It was such an amazing trip, but lurking on the background was the pain and trauma that […]
Read more "Portland, Part III"In times of trouble, there are those we seek out more than others. Life can be a challenge to navigate. There are ups and downs, and if I may be frank, this has been a bit of a down year. Few things have gone the way I wanted them to, and they have me attempting […]
Read more "Safety Valve"And suddenly you’ll change. September is always a time when a lot of people move, and that was the talk of the office for a time. People were scoping out new living situations, scheduling movers, and making the last minute decisions. You always feel like you’re hanging on by the skin of your teeth, like […]
Read more "On a Dime"“Do you want to play trivia tonight?” The question was simple enough. I was fresh off my sojourn to Costa Rica, and I was ready to get back in the swing of things. I’d had no choice but to spend my summer in Central America, but it turned out to be one of the best […]
Read more "Questions and Answers"Sometimes, the things we can’t see are the hardest to grapple with. My family home was beautiful and brown, at least it was when we first moved in. It was a good-sized place, and my Dad had several pieces added to it to accommodate our growing family. I moved from a room at the front […]
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