"We must all swim in the same sea. Right?” Read More

We each float at the center of a separate, outwardly radiating helix. Read More

Hey, catcha cobia, Hey, catcha valentine, Hey catcha co co bia, Eyes cold valentine bia. I listened to that jingle for years. The damned thing became an ear worm. An ear worm can be a snatch of rhythm, a melodic phrase, a whole tune. First, they just crawl around your ear, but eventually they become… Read More

Jamaica Plain housing project — age 3, going on 4 Read More

Mardi Gras 2020 — The last night out Read More

I like hats. Hats can provide protection, inspire intrigue, and serve as typical or atypical representations of a hat wearer’s persona. I don’t often wear hats. I don’t think I look good in most hats, and I never know where to put them down when I’m not in the immediate need of a hat. Today,… Read More

I like to think of history in astronomical terms of spiraling orbits. In the same way the sun hurtles through space and our planets spiral along behind it, forever trying to catch up, history doesn’t move in cycles, it moves in spirals. I’d like to offer the possibility that — with our most recent inauguration… Read More

...they didn’t request tapes or photos. Read More

I’m writing to you from a time far beyond your own. Read More

Doggedly, I record signs of the coming light. Read More