Every movie I can quote by heart is about somebody being redeemed. I've never seen the one with Redemption in the title. A quiz, two lists, and a collection I hadn't checked.
The Shelf
Category: Life
Even Further Down the Road
I wrote these lines at twenty years down the road and posted them again at twenty-four. Here they are at twenty-eight, after a normal Saturday that was anything but.
The Back of the Record
I found a 1958 pressing of The Strangest Secret at an estate sale. The back cover reads like grift copy, word for word. Here's why my alarm didn't go off.
Arm’s Reach
A man, a toddler with an iPad, and eight feet of downtown sidewalk between them. I got angry faster than I expected, and the anger wasn't really about him.
The Stories We Won’t Sit Through
I once worked at an insurance company where the owner smoked six cigars a day, ten feet from my desk. By afternoon the smoke was in my clothes, my hair, the paperwork. I went home smelling like his day and wondering what had happened to mine. Unhappy would have been fine. I was stuck. I … Continue reading The Stories We Won’t Sit Through
