Several years ago, I wrote letters and schemed to get my boss fired. It was a Friday afternoon when I got the news that he had been canned. (Please don’t waste any time here worrying about whether he deserved it– everyone was grateful to see him go.) A coworker appeared in my door and delivered […]
Read More More Tales of Intoxication and SobrietyRush Limbaugh doesn’t act like a grown-up. I guess that is not news. He is, as the Republican Party Chairman said, an entertainer. Entertainers don’t usually act like grown-ups. Grown-ups, of which we have very few in our world, don’t want people to suffer. People suffering kicks in their empathy. They suffer with people who are suffering. This […]
Read More Eric Cantor is an Average, Decent RepublicanOne summer, several years ago, I wrapped up an evening of art openings in my boyfriend’s neighbor’s loft, listening to beautiful Spanish poems recited. Everyone at this gathering was an artist of some sort, and conversation flowed around South American travel adventures, and paintings, and poets. I listened to their conversation begin to pool and […]
Read More Why I Stopped DrinkingI’m fond of the concept of “playing God” as presented in The Cider House Rules. It’s a novel with a good old-fashioned modernist directive: someone is going to play God, someone is going to wield terrifying power like a gun or a doctor’s kit, and maybe, since you’re a reasonable person, that person ought to be […]
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