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 types. These [...]
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.