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Impending Death
It is a rare moment in my life when I can enjoy making a sincere, honest, compassionate contribution to the human experience. I realize this sounds depressing, but I’ll bet that upon careful examination, most people can relate. Doesn’t mean … Continue reading
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New York City Twelve Degrees
I spend the days sleeping as I can. I have a sign out but really I hope just to be left alone, because I can’t survive the nights by sleeping. So the day is for sleeping. Because I … Continue reading
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The Graven Trust
The boy took steps lacking in trepidation, except concerning his balance. Moving from pole to pole, his gaze rooted to the negative valley of the lumpy canvas and cotton mass in the corner of the transit, he was not yet … Continue reading
Breaking the Fourth Wall
I think I’m going through a mid-life crisis and I think I know why. I came within an ace of spilling my guts just now, which is what any sensitive, hurting person with troubles would do, but then I remembered … Continue reading
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Tagged alcohol, death, disppointment, drinking, God, Midlife crisis, the more you know, therapy, writing
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Old Things
Somehow, I find myself working on a house. It’s what could be considered an Old House, at least by California standards. In writing about my progress to SuperHot SuperSmart Girlfriend just now, I realized that this house splits my parents’ … Continue reading
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Tagged control, home improvement, home repair, lonely, old, parents, work
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And Then There’s That Right There Then
I have been taking baby steps toward including my family. How do you do this with sufficient obscurity? “Thinking about you, wondering what you’re up to..” Deflecting the questions with yeah, boring, what’s going on with YOU because everyone loves … Continue reading
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Tagged alcohol, atheism, best things ever, career, commitment, control, death, friends, heartbreak, journalism, lonely, memories, parents, service, survival, TheMoreYouKnow, work, writing
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Sometimes
The fever comes. The baser nature takes control, the Id, the Ur-Man, the animal. I can’t explain it. I am a thinking, rational, enlightened example of the human experience. I am beyond this. Yet there it is. There I am. … Continue reading
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Preparing for the Show
The theater is empty. Large but not vast, not quite yet discarded in the American rush to the lowest common denominator, it sits as regally as it can when it’s alone. Since more than half of its volume is dedicated … Continue reading
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Tagged career, control, lonely, memories, mistakes, theater, writing
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Thanksgiving Tradition and Cats
I am writing this while listening to Alice’s Restaurant by Arlo Guthrie.For a lot of people, especially veterans and lefties, this song is required listening on Thanksgiving. For that reason, I’m including a video of it at the end of … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice's, cats, commitment, death, education, friends, heartbreak, lonely, love, pets, story, Thanksgiving, writing
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The Blessed Day
My daughter was getting married. I suppose it was the happiest day of my life, succeeding my own marriage, and then my second marriage. My own baby girl, who had worshipped me, hated me, idolized me, and tolerated me, was … Continue reading
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Tagged career, commitment, drinking, family, memories, mistakes, parents, writing
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