Whenever I have the tv on for background noise – Mike Doughty calls it his electric fireplace – if I look up and discover that entertainment news has come on while I was doing something else, I feel guilty and a little dirty and then I turn it off, quick as I can. This doesn’t …
I was born in Michigan. My family moved to Texas when I was 4. I have lived in Michigan, Texas, and Massachusetts. I have never lived alone. I still consider Boston to be my home because it is the place I felt and feel the most comfortable. My life is divided into two distinct phases …
(Originally published in Boston’s Weekly Dig. This is a revised version.) Recently, I learned a hard lesson. A lesson about boundaries. A lesson, even, about interpersonal communications. A lesson about the dick you can’t take back. I’m an academic – a political scientist – so I spend a lot of time hanging around with professor …
Last weekend, Diana and the dogs and I went to my mother’s house to make Christmas cookies. This is a tradition that’s been in my family for as long as I’ve been alive: one day in December we gather an industrious team and start cutting cookies out and baking them and then decorating them with …
iTunes purchase I am most ashamed of: ‘Temperature’ by Seal Paul.
A Moment On The Road Sometimes there’s more truth in things like pictures and words than you can possibly have planned on.
As for the connection between quitting my job and New York City, I think it is buried somewhere within the recesses of situational relevance – right here and now, in the fluid present, I’m in this situation and unhappy with it. In the past and future (if they can be separated as such) I’m in New York City and I’m happy. What’s happening here is making me think of what’s happening there, right here and now.