Image by the Crafty Bohemian. “You wanna go get some arm candy, Ben?” I stared dumbfounded at my uncle Ted. The truth was, I barely knew the guy. I’m not even sure he was actually related to me. “It’ll be fun! There’ll be food and baseball and girls!” “Ick, girls!” I yelled, eliciting laughter from [...] Read more »
I sip café au lait out of the giant bowl-sized mug, its logo glaring at me, taunting me. It reads “Brookline High School Class of 2000″ on it. I love this mug. It’s all I have to remind me that I graduated. Well that and this worthless piece of paper they call a diploma. The [...] Read more »
He didn’t weigh much, maybe a hundred and fifty pounds tops by my estimate. Given his short stature and slim build it wasn’t a surprise. His lack of tolerance wasn’t a surprise either. The way he drank, however, was. — Tipsy’s Liquor World towered in front of us, the Swiss chalet style architecture a pleasure [...] Read more »
My uncle Bruce and his girlfriend Alison who hosted Christmas dinner. This was the first time I’ve ever attended Christmas with my family. Forever the screwup, I tried to pickup Starbucks Gift Cards for my family on Erev Christmas. It wasn’t that I didn’t know what to get them, but that I was simply too [...] Read more »
Part of the Manila Skyline sits idly in the mid-day heat by the Pasig River. For more heat stifled pictures of the Philippines, click here. NOTE: This entry was written the afternoon of August 11 during a two day stop in Manila. Because my laptop ran out of batteries attempting to get a signal in [...] Read more »
Salvador Dali’s “Persistence of Memory” ‘”You remember that time,” I said, a smile creasing my face, “we got lost in Denver looking for that show. We were in your minivan and we spent hours just cruising back and forth, not really worrying about it since we hadn’t bought tickets anyway.” She smiled and laughed a [...] Read more »
Harley, one of Denise’s cats, poses on my bed. For more pictures from Guam, click here When I was a small boy, the immunologist diagnosed me with two allergies: dust and cats. The latter upset my parents, since we had owned cats since before I was born. “Don’t worry,” the doctor said. “It’s a minor [...] Read more »
Keeping a Positive Outlook with Tragic Expectations It seems as if the divide between pessimists and optimists is becoming more stark and defined by the minute. Either the glass is half empty or half full. There is no other acceptable answer. I often refer to myself as a pessimist. I don’t expect much from other [...] Read more »
“You know. I’m just saving the princess from the clutches of evil.” “Oh,” I said, impressed by the matter-of-fact way in which he replied. I ate another grape off my plate as I sat down cross-legged next to him. I’m not sure I realized it right then, but thinking back, I should have been in [...] Read more »
The day I was born, my father wandered around the corner from the hospital and bought a teddy bear for me. Simply calling it a teddy bear doesn’t do it justice. The bear was built with a rectangular plastic pack in the center that, when connected to an 8-volt battery and turned on, would imitate [...] Read more »