Crooked teeth are quite charming, as are aging hands -- -- the tooth that kicks out of the regiment, and marches to another cadence. -- the knuckles that read like a captain's map, with rivers and trails and ravines. I'm fond of the slanting windowsill, of the mismatched ...
Tom, I Still Miss You.
On my favorite stoop this morning, I was thinking about dreams. Voluminous works have been written about them, but we are no closer to explaining the phenomenon that occurs when you dream about someone and then see that person the next day. BAM! -- you freeze and try to fight the feeling in your ...
Eavesdropping I
*** "For me, it's 'Thriller' all the way, baby. That's the American album. Sure, there's his other stuff ... 'Off the Wall', that's good ... but if you're gonna buy something for a perfect music collection, trust me, you ain't nothin' if you ain't got 'Thriller.'" *** "It's ...
The Ultimate Wheelchair Ramp
If you take the elevator to the top floor, you can navigate the main exhibit hall of the Guggenheim Museum in a chair without pushing. You just have to brake it a little with your hands in order to maintain a reasonable speed the whole way down. Which is REALLY fun, or would be, if there weren't so ...
Everything’s Bigger in Texas
The wonderful Greek fellow who owns the neighborhood grocery store does not like to see me coming. I walk in the door, and he immediately posts up on the end of an aisle with his arms crossed. During my entire visit, he peers down each row with a threatening expression, thinking I am a suspicious ...