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In just twenty-four hours, Abbi and I will be on a plane bound for Bonaire. Oddly, I don’t feel like I deserve a vacation. Historically, I work myself into some sort of frenzied, anxious state, or — worse — make myself deathly ill before it occurs to me to take some time off to regroup.…

I had a small rooftop gathering last weekend to celebrate the start of summer. My friends Jeff and Kristan made an eleventh hour appearence. When I offered them a drink, Jeff opted for a beer, Kristan opted for water. I got Kristan a fresh glass, tossed in some ice cubes, and poured her some chilled…

I’m a bit dubious about Independence Day, especially these days. Bo Lozoff described the Bush Administration’s (or, as he calls them, “The Masters of Unsustainability”) careful and deliberate erosion of American (and global) civil liberties (wire tapping, bank records, Guantonimo, etc) with an age-old metaphor. “If you drop a frog into a pot of boiling…

I knocked this one out in no time. I was thinking about this dude in Sioux City, Chase, that I kinda know (via the internet, anyway). Best as I can tell from this fella’s website, he’s a young father of two (one his, one by marriage) wrestling with that tension between growing up, accepting responsibility,…

I began this long holiday break alone thinking of it as a lost weekend. Very, quickly, though, I began to think of it as found. You’ll recall that I was supposed to be scuba diving in Bonaire by now. I’m not complaining. We’re going next week instead. But the sudden scheduling change left me with…

I received an email from a Canadian pen pal last week. It began with a request that I cover Bob Dylan’s “Tangled Up In Blue” (which I may yet do), and concluded thusly… My Toronto Blue Jays beat your Mets at home today. There’s nothing like just being there as a fan at a ball…