Big

How big is Paris and how big is my father? I was at the theater at a show about a father when it was all happening. Paris is very big, not as big as New York, nothing is. The show, “Fun Home,” is partly about how big your parents are, particularly your opposite-sex parent. If […]

Patience

Although I was in a neighborhood that is that supercool Brooklyn, I entered none of the charming places, instead I went into Dunkin Donuts. Although it was a full sunny day and I had had a perfectly restful and productive morning, I hated everyone and everything, and I had decided the only thing that would […]

$25

I did not go look at the water, although that was the important thing, I didn’t. He is the one who desires sea. I walked around and around one building in the last block at the end of “the island of the Manhattoes,” and I thought someone must be wondering if I was up to no […]

The Great Fish

I was caught unawares that I was leading the service, not just helping, and it was with a “Page 115,” that I opened a prayer book and got the show on the road. When it was time to get the bread and wine, though, again I forgot it is stashed in the gold cabinet, and […]