I want to talk to you for a few minutes about Venice. Venice has always been a fascinating place to me, and I think some of that is, at least as I remember it, its outsized place in early education. It’s an anomaly, to be sure, a place where the streets are canals, and what… Continue reading November 21, 2018
Author: popcornjack
November 16, 2018
I want to talk to you for a few minutes about leaving. If you’ve known me for any length of time, then you’ve probably heard some variation of my moving stories, that I spent the first 18 years at one address, and then made up for lost time by moving what seemed like twice a… Continue reading November 16, 2018
November 4, 2018
I want to talk to you for a few minutes about licorice. Last Sunday’s New York Times magazine was all about candy. One of the articles was about the search for a very particular style of licorice from Finland called Salmiakki. In the article, the author, Mark Binelli, cited one of my favorite candy/rock-n-roll crossover… Continue reading November 4, 2018
October 27, 2018
I want to talk to you for a few minutes about age. I need to say this, before anybody trips over their walker rushing to their computer to say their variation of “What does he know about age? He’s still a kid.” Yes, I know there are people older than me. I’m pretty sure there… Continue reading October 27, 2018
October 20, 2018
I want to talk to you for a few minutes about crowds. (I wrote this in two sittings, writing the first part early this afternoon, before I went out, not thinking it would turn out the way it did. Which just goes to show how insidious depression and anxiety can be.) I hate ‘em. If… Continue reading October 20, 2018
September 13, 2018
I want to talk to you for a few minutes about two things I never talk about. Specifically, I want to talk about why I don’t talk about them, and to do so, I’m not going to talk about them at first. Imagine you have a friend that is dating somebody bad for them. I… Continue reading September 13, 2018
September 20, 2018
I want to talk to you for a few minutes about anniversaries. Anniversaries aren’t really something I spend too much time thinking about. I’ve never been married, so that takes away having to be concerned about the big one that most people sweat over, and as for other people’s, I’m about as good as remembering… Continue reading September 20, 2018
June 10, 2018
I want to talk to you for a few minutes about depression. The other morning it took me 6 minutes to put in one contact. It shouldn’t take that long (normally doesn’t) and it was very frustrating. Must people would be frustrated by that, but most of those people would let that frustration go before… Continue reading June 10, 2018
Ashes to Air (April 29, 2018)
This was his rock. He said it suited him best because it gave him more room to stretch out his legs, and not because it was one of the few chances she could ever feel what it was like to be taller than him. Both of those were true, but she believed he also chose… Continue reading Ashes to Air (April 29, 2018)
October 20, 2017
My apartment has a small back patio. It’s really not much, maybe an 8 by 8 concrete slab, made bigger only because the fence that separates ours from our neighbor’s came down in the storm. The fence that is still standing stands about six feet tall, nothing to look at, simply a utilitarian fence to… Continue reading October 20, 2017
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