Traveling’s gotten easier. With a clean shirt and a credit card the world is yours. I’d recommend a pair of dress-up/dress-down boots and mid-weight jacket…

When I was in high school I drove past a guy with a ten-foot wooden cross hooked over his shoulder. He was tramping north along…

There was a brief window in my life, when I was about 26 or 27, when I considered myself to be a professional musician. Not…

There was a girl in my freshman class that ended things. I only knew of her demise third-hand. She’d transferred abroad by then, and it…

Every kid grows up thinking they’ll be a star. It seems inevitable when you’re coming up, when all the parents clap wildly after the school…

I’m back on a diet. It happens to me every few years, when I groggily step on the dusty, cobwebbed scale after my morning ablutions…

I knew I’d get tagged by some chum sooner or later. There’s another one of those “10 Records That Changed Your Life” Facebook memes going…

Like Tony, I spent some early years swinging on the bottom rungs of the restaurant business. I was a first-rate busboy, a hard-working dishwasher, but…

A few political spin-cycles back I got the the idea that I should stop looking at public policy through various ideological filters, but instead take…