The water is wide and I can’t cross over, Neither have I wings that I could fly. Build me a boat that can carry two, and both shall row my love and I.
I’d like to speak to the manager!!! Now I lay me down to sleep.I pray the Lord my soul to keep.If I should die before I wake.I pray the lord my soul to take. This poem scared the fuck out of me as a child. Seriously. I was convinced that the poem was for kids.…
Stuck all week on a lady’s lap, nothing to do but yawn and nap. Can you blame me if I yap?
I’d like to speak to the manager!!! Family pets. We all have them. Most of us grew up with them. A few people I know had sociopaths for parents and weren’t allowed to love an animal. Not even a hamster. In my childhood, we had many pets. Pedro is the first pet I can truly remember, although I…
Fame, I’m gonna live for ever!
I’d like to speak to the manager!!! Thirty years ago, I taught lighting D]design at the Cincinnati School for Creative and Performing Arts. I started there in the fall of 1995 and left at the end of the 1998 school year. I learned more from my students and co-workers than I ever dreamed about teaching. That being…
Start spreading the news!
I’d like to speak to the manager!!! Happy New Year! For five years I worked at the Hard Rock Café in Times Square NYC. It was a very lucrative job, and it afforded me the ability to pay my rent, as well as take time off to design shows that came my way. There were 120+…
Oh, Holy Night.
I’d like to speak to the manager! Christmas. Tis the season. I’m a non-believer. But I subscribe to all things Christmas. I love the weather. The gift giving. The cheer. The scary ghost stories. Especially, the music. Although Hard Candy Christmas is NOT a Christmas song. Neither is Halleluiah. I even love the origin story.…
On the 12th day of Christmas my true love gave to me…
I’d like to speak to the manager!!! Growing up poor is an adventure in restraint. Especially, when you are a child who’s wiser than his years, and knows that his parents struggle financially. I learned at a very early age, to hide my disappointment when I didn’t get exactly what I wanted. If I got it at all. …
I’m not my father’s son
I’d like to speak to the manager!!! My friend LC, is a therapist who among other things, specializes in working with folks who are adopted, were in foster care, or don’t know their bio parents. She reached out a couple of months ago to ask the following: “I am hosting an event at Novel on…
I’d like to teach the world to sing!
I’d like to speak to the manager!!! It’s been 1,929 days since I drank my last Diet Coke. Crazy HUH! I switched to soda water, and haven’t looked back. Soda water has turned out to be tricky though, especially, when you are out and about. McDonald’s has the world’s best fountain sodas. Period. No matter what you are…
They say the neon lights are bright on Broadway.
I’d like to speak to the manager!!! Picture this Sicily, 1923. Actually, picture this. New York City. 1983. My first trip to NYC. It was speech and drama students from Scott County Senior High School, seniors, who’d participated along the way. Some of the specifics are a little fuzzy, but the stories are 100% true. My mother was…
By doin’ hard work
I’d like to speak to the manager!!! Monday, October 20, 2025. It’s cold here tonight, in Maine. We got the first real rain we’ve gotten since June today. It was perfect napping weather. Which explains my 2+ hour nap this afternoon. This is the first time I’ve written in at least four months. It’s hard to be creative when…
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