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Morning Crossword

August 18, 2011 Gram is hardcore: she does the morning puzzles in ink. The minute I sit down she slides the crossword over to me to finish so she can move on to Jumble. [6:40am]

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The Garden

I must have drafted this in 1985 or 1986 in one fast pass but never published it. It's not my best writing, but it connects me with a moment that I find myself reaching for sometimes when I'm feeling lost. The Grandfather was not an…

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Patrick

Patrick was Chief Photographer at the student newspaper, The BG News, when I tumbled out of high school in tiny Niles, Ohio, and into college at Bowling Green State University in August, 1983. I didn't choose Bowling Green. Bowling Green found me. I had been…

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Memo to the domestic abuser, 12 years on

Twelve years ago, “domestic violence” came home dressed like a little boy in a grown-ass man’s body a grown-ass alcoholic little boy a grown-ass drunken alcoholic amphetamine-raging little boy textbook control freak seriously, textbook Not even a boy with the access or privilege of an…

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Object Obituary: My Nikons

I wrote this for Wendy Ju’s magazine, Ambidextrous, back in 2008. Then some things happened in my life that interfered with my finishing the story for publication. Today I stumbled across the stack of drafts that had accumulated as I worked on a final edit…

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Adam and Eve

Adam and Eve recently visited the Castro. They enjoyed crèmes brûlées from the crème brûlée cart, window-shopped fancy shoes, and grabbed a quick coffee with The Devil. Later, they walked hand-in-hand while touring the Castro’s shops, to the delighted squeals of other tourists (“look! there’s one!”) and the…

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Summer Reading

April 14, 2012 Summer reading courtesy of a box of free books left 30 feet from my door on a path i seldom walk. I don’t generally believe in omens but I’m counting this one anyway.

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