The Prudent Keep Quiet in Such Times
Seek good, not evil, that you may live. Then the Lord God Almighty will be with you, just as you say he is.
‘Dracula, the Musical?’ (A Review)
Throughout the performance, I can understand eighty percent of what he says and forty percent of what he sings because, well … because of his teeth.
Summer in the City
And if Regina Spektor happens to be giving a concert in Central Park on that particular Wednesday, who’s to say I have to move my painstakingly planned picnic?
In Defense of Habit
But I also hold on to habits because they give me an unexpected freedom.
You Look Happy to Me
They’re not always noble or pure, but then of course neither am I. We try our best, and sometimes people climb mountains just to see us blossom in the cold.
The Bloodmobile
After a full bag, they unplugged me and fed me Cheez-Its and sent me on my way. I would soon discover that drinking a PBR immediately after giving blood isn’t a good idea
Losing Something That Was Never Really Ours
When my wife told me she was pregnant, it was the most surreal experience of my life.
Once Crossing The Hudson
The next day is exactly like the first.
We don’t check the news.
Phones die on the picnic table while we swim.
A Sehnsuchtsvoll Website
The fairness and insensitivity of this feels reassuring, like weather or death. Something I cannot change. Something that does not care about me.
On Second Grade Reading Lists
As I’ve been moving my life into this new room, I’ve been dismantling the one in the southwest suburbs of Chicago where I slept in from the age of ten until I left for college.
