You can find my most recent writing post over at Dead Darlings this month. It’s no secret that 2016 has been a rough year for pop musicians. Did someone set off a slow-acting neutron bomb that kills platinum-sellers? Paul Kantner (Jefferson Airplane), Merle Haggard, David Bowie, Maurice White (Earth, Wind & Fire), and Prince, to […]
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I will remember 2015 as the year I discovered the universe. Not in any literal sense. I have been stargazing since I was a kid, and have enjoyed reading about astronomy and cosmology throughout adulthood. Last June, though, I bought an entry-level Celestron telescope on the web, and my conception of the infinite shifted for […]
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On the way to the Muse and the Marketplace conference a couple of Sundays ago, turning onto Beacon Street, I ran into a river of pedestrians aiming west-bound toward Coolidge Corner. Pink, yellow, and baby blue t-shirts. Walk for Hunger, the white badges said. Of course, I thought. Early May in Boston. Walk-a-thon season is […]
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The real transition from summer to autumn, I have always thought, occurs during these October evenings. Drenching rains knock leaves off trees. Cold nights act as a reminder of what is to come in November, and beyond.
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The first got cut in half by a puck when I was ten, playing street hockey in New York. The second got angle-chipped at fifteen while driving my friend Scott’s Gran Torino without a license in Minnesota. I hit a pole at 5 MPH in the parking lot of my apartment complex.
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