I’m a person who relies on ritual and routine to contain the worst excesses of my personality. And thus I am always rather undone by holidays without ritual. I always look forward to Labor Day weekend and Memorial Day weekend, and New Year’s Day, but when they get here, I have no idea what to […]
Read More Satan’s Favorite Holidays10 Best Places 1. feet up on your desk at work at the end of a day you kicked ass 2. Notre Dame, Paris 3. the park on the first day the grass is green and it’s warm enough to lie down outside 4. Grand Central Terminal, New York City 5. across from a half-empty […]
Read More The 10 Best of Some Stuff, for No Particular TimeThe guy who tried to blow up this latest airplane, his dad called our embassy to say, “My son is missing. He’s gotten some wacky ideas in his head. Look out for him.” Was this an agonized act of love, or a furious slap back at a wayward child? The guy’s family had lost contact […]
Read More Lost BoysSt. John declares that words make us human. That words, even, make us exist. It is words, and not pictograms or tools or logic or emotions. And so St. John is the patron saint of writers. I mean St. John the Evangelist, theoretical author of what is known as John’s gospel. I don’t know or […]
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