Between a puff of cannabised air and sips of carbonized swill, the old man dropped an inquisition: Church for you anymore? As if he half knew, half […]
“Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strengths.” ― Charles Haddon Spurgeon How deep does the rabbit hole go, […]
If I had a dog-eared journal —its silk page marker wagging through the collection of Dickensian hardbacks on my office shelf, its face veneered with the dust of Saturdays—I […]
this is the Mother Theresa I know: eyes folded in on themselves, the bags beneath, doughy clouds of doubt swinging back and forth like a constant thurifer. this, and the […]
Every year, like a precipice at which I perch, peering down the swampy stairs with rugrats churning up the inappropriate hours: and the only banister, my coffee, black— —or […]
That I rose up this morning like an Ozymandias—putting on that deep red plaid wool LL Bean I love and scurrying down in comically large moose slippers to […]
I am sitting now—finally— between the droning chapters of a falling week and a rusty Afghan. The sun has deigned to visit. You know the scene: our Grandmother “Rest Her […]
There’s little I recall of being small and the gentle tide of frothy insignificance that buoys young men and storybook friends. What mind’s eye sees, it sees in […]