Category Archives: Reality is a Harsh Mistress
Dreams
A peek inside my subconscious is always an unpleasant experience. I don’t dream often and remember clearly what I dreamt even less often. I must have had a rough night last night. In the first episode of our late-night triple … Continue reading
Bad Call
I have made some bad decisions in my life. Once, I quit a job that raised my pay 50% in eight months with an offer of additional money and the use of a car if I’d stay. I left them … Continue reading
“They had those American names — like Paderewski.”
On Tuesdays not too long ago I’d be looking forward to sitting in a great open room, soaking in the warm southern breeze, drinking two for one beers and chowing down on bar grub before hitting the movies at the … Continue reading
The Once and Future Home
Ready for a string of numbers? Nine months, forty-eight hours, seven-hundred miles, three months, three days. It’s been nine months since I boogied south. In forty-eight hours I’ll be boogying north over seven-hundred miles of mountain roads. When I moved … Continue reading
God Hates Me
It’s official. I should be banned from Red Sox games. Thirteen games in a row they beat the Orioles. The fourteenth? Well, I was there. Naturally they lost. Sonsamahbitches! But I did get to see Papi lift one that almost … Continue reading