Front doors are for show around here. In winter the wreaths come out and adorn them, sprucing up their usually lifeless bodies for a month or two before going back into the attic for another year. Summer brings a fresh paint job — sometimes white, sometimes blue — and as people pass they gasp in … Continue reading These Front Doors
“What is a date really, but a job interview that lasts all night? The only difference is that in not many job interviews is there a chance you’ll wind up naked.” ~Jerry Seinfeld As a kid I wanted to be a comedian. It was going to be Jerry Seinfeld and me (and not necessarily in … Continue reading Just Like Jerry Seinfeld
A little over a year ago my nephew graduated from a prestigious high school just outside of Philadelphia, and we took a trip down from upstate New York to be a part of the festivities. It was a wonderful trip in the car with competing sounds. You see, I have to listen to my music … Continue reading Snapshot Stories #1
When I was a kid I played with Barbie dolls, little plastic figurines that were supposed to simulate people in the “real world,” and I felt nothing odd about it. My sister owned a complete collection of the dolls, so there was more than just Barbie there. There were various configurations of feminine figures that … Continue reading The Power of Greyskull
Summertime means beads of sweat glistening on my forehead before sliding down into my eyes, so I wipe them away and I think of winter, the cold, the snow, and the ice. Summertime means driving down back roads to get places I never knew I wanted to be, while the radio plays Kenny Chesney but … Continue reading A Dozen Lazy Summers
“The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different.” ~Charles Dudley Warner I always felt inferior to my sister, for one reason or another, throughout those early, formative, years. It was never her fault, of course, but you couldn’t … Continue reading Expecting the World
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