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Birthday #2

February 18, 2022

Birthday #1

February 18, 2022

The Original Waterfire

February 14, 2022

This was going to be a whole thing, to write more, these pens, everything, and it was all forgotten when Quinn came home for the rest of the summer. It just all went out the window. The window. Here I am though, at this window, looking down onto the busy shimmery pool, full of kids […]

Moira, Part 1

July 31, 2021

I am from Rhode Island. Haven Brothers, the oldest food truck in the country, is also from Rhode Island. Haven Brothers is famous among locals for being the only thing open in the middle of the night in downtown Providence, and it is a beacon after last call, bordering on a mecca, its greasy food […]

New Year’s Eve/New Year’s Day

January 2, 2021

New Year’s Eve: Our 3rd annual burning of the Christmas tree. Flames 10, 15, 20 feet high; heat; crackling; kids and adults yelling—it lasts for roughly 2 minutes. We’ll do this until the neighbors call the cops on us. New Year’s Day: Our 5th annual First Day Hike, this time Mt. Tom in Holyoke, MA. […]

RIP Barry Dennen 1938–2017

October 3, 2017

Barry was a bit of an oxymoron. He was an incredibly sweet man who could be a royal PITA. He was a genuine, honest person—one of the most honest I’ve ever met, often to the point of bluntness (see PITA comment above)—who was also a caricature of himself. He was thoughtful and hilarious and serious […]

6 Perks of Being a Single Parent

November 17, 2016

Single parenthood is very difficult. I grew up with a single mom, and I am one now myself. The challenges are myriad and sometimes seemingly insurmountable. They are also almost entirely what you hear about, when you hear about single parents. There are joys to single parenthood, though, too; joys that are unknowable to parents […]

RIP Pauline Whitesinger, Navajo elder

August 20, 2014

Pauline Whitesinger died earlier this month. Grandma Pauline was my hero. A Navajo elder, she lived a traditional life on the Navajo reservation in what is known as Arizona. She lived a hard life–hard by our industrial-world standards, and made harder by the coal mining occupation to which she refused to concede. She stayed on […]

A good fire is based on oxygen

February 9, 2014

A good fire is based on oxygen; based on, if could be said, the spaces between, the absence. Absence is a funny thing, especially with regards to desire. Everything contains absence, nothing is completely present. So we always desire something we cannot (fully) have. Like the Lacan/Hegel catch-22: the desire for another’s desire (the only […]

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