Mikey and I were joking around to keep up our energy. Some people didn’t understand & thought we were goofballs, but there was a method to our madness. Generally speaking, while working on “Terriers,”

Wringing hands. Glee unmasked. “And when I’m with Jesus,” you said, “In Heaven, and you are begging for water, we’ll spare not a drop. Not a drop!” Your eyes shone like a five-year-old on Christmas morning.

I saved up my lawn mowing money for a year to get my first Huffy. The Bicentennial version. I got a ton of shit. “No one’s too stuffy to ride on a Huffy.” My second was a mono-shock. I thought it looked

Waze alerted me to a route change. It wanted me to head back down 87 South towards New York. Odd. I was going to Boston. Crossing the Mario Cuomo Bridge I got cynical; opened a couple of days before the

Saw Anna Banana today We studied each other’s eyes She smiled. Crow's feet I remembered her running naked into the surf of Wrightsville Beach Getting ‘night nekked’ we called it We cried couldn’t help

Three hundred and twenty miles to miles to drive til dawn And I've got a list five names long. I've had good company on this trip-- Jade, who took on a good chunk of the driving- and my old ipod (before

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The summer of 1990 was my nadir. An ex-girlfriend suggested I move from Boston to New York to give our relationship another shot. I arrived at Penn Station with sixty bucks in my pocket. After some difficulty,

Roman Soldier The relationship between Rome and Hibernia is a mystery. While some evidence suggests Romans traded with the Irish, other historians claim the Roman artifacts found in Ireland were solely

I showered and met the director, Terry George, and Bill Paxton for breakfast. Bill and I were already tight. I met him two days earlier sitting across the aisle from me on the flight over. He laughed at

I was lonely. The last few years had been hard. I went through a breakup and custody battle. My ex had moved on to other relationships including a failed marriage and some live-in boyfriends. Early on

Dawn broke. It was so hot, sweat stung my eyes. I couldn’t sleep, hadn’t since two A.M., and was waiting for day to come so I could get some orange juice, walk around, do something, anything. I stepped

'' I flew into Sudbury on January 2, 2014. It was minus thirty-two degrees Celsius. It was the second time I’d been in the city since my trans-Canadian driving adventure in 2009. I dragged my suitcase

At the baggage claim carousel at Little Rock Airport, I knew Arkansas was different. I saw a lot of people smoking and thought, Cool. I can light up. I’d been to Arkansas a number of times, but usually

It was a cold afternoon, late Autumn. The sun was setting and a shadow grew over the pond. The phone rang. It was my neighbor, Lorri. She was worried she hadn’t seen her horses in days and wondered if

ps- pic above is my child & dear friend, Mike Horam (RIP), not person in story I fought traffic on the 101, hustling home from a job to get to my son’s spelling bee. Weeks before the competition, Finn

The drawing was from the perspective of someone driving through the woods, a deer caught in the headlights. The theme was common. It should have been ordinary, but something about it terrified me. It was

Seamus The beginning of sophomore year, I moved with six of my friends into a pair of adjoining suites on the top floor of F-entry in Adams House. We immediately threw a party. I’m sure Yule Caise, a senior

Serial Killers The first serial killer I met was Cary Stayner. Well, he might not have been the first, and we didn’t really meet. He froze me with a stare as I rolled out of the lobby of a low-budget motel

In the early 60s, my friend, Danny Trejo, was locked up in LA County. I can’t remember the details of why, and in truth, he might not either. He was in a large block segregated along racial lines. While