Dad would be celebrating today. He was horrified to see his brethren die on that tragic day when the towers collapsed. We talked in the days after the events of 9/11 about the job that the men of FDNY were doing. I could hear the pain in his voice. As a nation, we rallied around [...]
April is a blur. I’ve been keeping insane hours since the beginning of the month. Each week has been wall to wall busy with different projects, trips, and me bouncing from one meeting to another with barely any downtime to actually do any of the work that I need to do. I’ve been down to [...]
I read a piece in Orion Magazine last night about traveling on trains as opposed to traveling via air. Train travel is compelling on many levels. It is a reconnection with our past — trains built America in many ways. It feels much more civilized than air travel. There are no full body scans, no [...]
When I lived in Fells Point in 1996 I cut the tip of my finger off chopping green peppers. Mike fixed me up. I’m pretty sure he’s still there at liquid earth. Here’s a story from those days. Some day I’ll lean how to chop. Then I won’t hack parts of my fingers and thumb [...]
Nearly a year ago I wrote about Lost Talents. I wrote about poems that I had written in college. Shortly after that post, my good friend sent me scans of many (but not all) of those poems. I was blessed, but many of them were incomplete drafts. I started hunting on old hard drives at [...]