Two weeks ago, I get a Facebook message.  “I feel like after our trip together our relationship cooled.  Was it something I did?”

Well …

The trip happens in the last week of June. The walls are closing in on me and I  need to do something, anything. A close … Read the rest

I walk in the evening air or run in the morning  and feel the season changing from one thing to another – sultry shifting to crisp. Crickets sing their odes to the final days of summer.

At sunset a honking formation of geese flew over our heads. Twenty, thirty so … Read the rest

I met Andrea in 1988.  I was a sophomore in college and still living in the dorm.  She was the girlfriend of a guy named Barry who was the roommate/dorm-mate of my friend Joe.

Barry was into working out, hitting the gym in the adjoining dorm once a day.  I … Read the rest

It’s mid-July.

My mom calls in a panic.  The lump on my dad’s tongue, the one he noticed a few months ago, the one that’s grown noticeably larger, the one his doctor immediately biopsied, the one I’m just learning about is in fact cancer.

It falls to me to take … Read the rest

It’s Sunday and I’m worn out and sore from days of hiking. All I want to do is curl up and sleep, but that’s not an option. I have daughter duty and the little one wants to go to the town pool. It’s our thing – something we’ve been doing … Read the rest

I remember the day I was fired.  I remember the moment I got the news and mentally scrolling through an index of things I’d be facing in the next 10 – 15 minutes. Items I needed to check off before leaving for the last time. I knew I’d never access … Read the rest

It’s February and I’m sitting on the white couch in my therapist’s Hyde Park office.  “So? How are you today?”

“Been better.” Understatement.

Actually, Valentine’s Day is making a nuts. I try to ignore it or pass it off as a fake holiday, but society embraces it.  Thus, my youngest … Read the rest