Monthly Archives: January 2017

Black Ice

January 3, 2017 – 2:00 pm

Yesterday smug northerners ridiculed the snowbound paralysis of Atlanta. “There was only two inches of snow,” sneered Jon Stewart of Comedy Central. ‘Maybe we should airlift Maine drivers down to the South to teach them how to drive in winter conditions,” joked a friend at Frank’s Lounge. My grandfather once said, “There are two seasons […]

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2015 Amok

January 2, 2017 – 8:15 pm

Last New Year’s Eve I stayed off the streets of New York. Many people call the celebration ‘amateurs’ night and Joel Goodman’s photograph of Manchester’s last night of 2015 holiday showed the veracity of that comment in spades. Drunks everywhere. The coppers battling drunks. Drunks strewn across the street. Ah, 2016 NYE I barely knew […]

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Jan. 2, 2007 Going Home

January 2, 2017 – 3:41 am

It was still dark yesterday morning, when my wife terminated her holiday stay in Pattaya. She packed the car with my daughter, my adopted niece, her sister, my dog, and about three weeks of food whch would be comsumed during the five our journey to Ban Nok outside of Chai-nat. Nu was no longer angry. […]

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No Tattoos in Heaven

January 2, 2017 – 2:19 am

After my best friend drowned in Sebago Lake in 1960, I became a non-believer. Chaney was a good boy and no God would have let him die. My atheism was a secret. I was an altar boy at Sunday Mass. My mother prayed that I might take the cloth as a priest or at the […]

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