Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!
I’m thankful for all of you.
Archive for the ‘Love’ category
“Whenever you’re feeling good and hungry . . .”
I have been working in Cincinnati, Ohio for most of the past two weeks. I have been busy. I shuttle between a hotel room and an offsite training location and my meals are on the run – Starbucks, Wendy’s, McDonalds or a ham on rye and sweet tea from a chain deli across the parking lot. I [...]
Fancy passion
Good people, I’ve been asked to say something at a wedding. The wedding of two people I introduced. One person was the good friend of my former upstairs neighbor in my apartment; the other person was the ex-girlfriend of a friend who has since fallen off the radar. She moved in with me after they [...]
Did the movies totally fuck us?
Much of the TGW crowd is partnered up, and, I imagine, complete in some read-the-Sunday-Times-over-breakfast way. I live next door to two married couples and it is true: their grass is greener.
Yet for the tiny sliver of uncoupled Whatsiters – what will become of us? Will we find love? And how – how, will we [...]
Some terrific, radiant, humble book
I am reading a book about a human who falls in love with a vampire. It is summer novel, wonderfully trashy with page after page of “should I?” or “shouldn’t I?” plucked like petals in endless dilemmas. The vampire is cold and beautiful. The girl is soft and spunky. Their relationship somehow transcends triteness under [...]
Persephone returns
I became a feminist when I was 24 years old.
I had graduated from college, been promoted to a new position, lived in a swank apartment and flashed a fresh-from-the-velvet engagement ring. In the window of time between waiting and settled, I decided to take a class at the local State University. After looking over my options, I [...]
Multimedia: More short reviews
What we’re watching, reading/looking at, watching, and, uh, rejecting:
The American Experience, “Walt Whitman” (PBS)
Last Thursday night we serendipitously stumbled upon the broadcast of The American Experience episode on Walt Whitman. One commentator noted that “it was as if Whitman had read a want ad’s notice for ‘National Poet’ and signed up.”
For me, the highlight [...]
On nature, nests and Bryan’s Brussels sprouts
I was getting into my car for work a few mornings ago when another car pulled into my driveway. It was my oldest son’s carpool ride. I waved and proceeded to put my bag in the backseat. The mom who was driving leaped out of her car and ran up to me. This woman is [...]
Thursday playlist: 29 was fine, I guess
Every year, on or about April 8, I make a mixtape that I share with a few friends. First came “Mix 26” (2005), then “27 - Out with the :-(, in with the :-)” (2006), and “28 - Is It Too Late? (2007, never released). Now, as I turn 30 (and to show my appreciation [...]
Thursday playlist: murder, mayhem and very bad decisions
When Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds recorded Murder Ballads in 1996, I thought it was scary but incomplete. He managed to capture the horror but not always the beauty of this folk genre. With respect to Nick, I have attempted to put together my own playlist from a collection I have assembled over many [...]
