Tuesday morning, it was dreary as I walked to the train station for work. Though the temperatures were rising, they hadn’t done so enough to melt the ice the previous day’s combination of snow and then rain had created on the sidewalks. It was safer to walk in the street, watching one’s feet while shuffling along. […]
Last week, early in the week, I was having a string of bad days for reasons I can’t pin down. There was, as always, a combination of factors, the drudgery of hauling myself into the office during the post-holiday winter months (January-March is always hard), the segment I was working on in my novel wasn’t going […]
Wait, did I say joy? Maybe I mean that sarcastically. I’m not sure. It’s possible, at this point in my life, that you could replace me with a robot programmed to utter the same five to ten phrases and no one would notice the difference. “It’s bath time.” “Don’t stand so close to the TV.” […]
So maybe “gentleman” is taking it a bit far, but I’m one of those guys. We’ve all met them. My age is hard to pin down because I’ve always looked older than I am. Part of the reason for this is premature gray. The whitish strands started appearing in the later half of high school and […]
I miss my wife. Which is odd because she’s right there in the house next to me, every day, working as I work to raise our kids, sharing the same bed with me at night. But we have two of them now, children, and the attention they require means I miss my wife, means that […]
As I mentioned in December, I did a reading for WXPN for Live from the Kelly Writers House. The reading was from my novel-in-progress Personal Time. A month ago, I posted the excerpt I didn’t use. They have now posted the reading online, so if you’d like to give it a listen, you can click […]
Saturday night’s meal turned into a collaboration the moment I left the produce store. I didn’t make any rules against collaboration, nor did I consciously intend to collaborate, but when I got back home, I realized I had forgotten the bread. Ordinarily this wouldn’t have been a huge deal. The produce store is, after all, […]
While I was working on Personal Time over the last three months, I mentioned to an acquaintance one night at dinner that I had intended the novel as a NaNoWriMo type project. A few days later he contacted me using Facebook and asked if I’d be interested in reading an excerpt at the Kellys Writer House for a […]