I was lost for you to find. And now I’m yours and you are mine
I’d like to speak to the manager!!! I’ve written before about working at Bennigan’s. It was my first “real” serving job. I started there in the fall of 1987 about three months after I moved to Atlanta. I lied to get the job, saying that I had experience. I don’t think anyone ever figured it…
Snow, It won’t be long before we’ll all be there with snow. SnowI wanna wash my hands, my face, and hair with snow. SnowI long to clear a path and lift a spade of snow. Oh to see a great big man entirely made of snow.
I’d like to speak to the manager!!! The official weather report from tonight on Channel 6 says that Cape Elizabeth got 14” of snow on Sunday and Monday. That’s a lot for one storm, even for us. Although, the most we’ve had since we’ve lived in Maine is just shy of 32” in one storm. That was intense. …
I got ssssteam heat, but I need your love to keep away the cold
I’d like to speak to the manager!!! It’s currently 6* in Portland. That’s very cold. Even for us. I talk about Maine winters a lot. And while yes, they’re long and cold. It’s not ridiculously cold like it is in the Midwest. And thanks to climate change, we get a lot less snow than we used to, although this weekend…
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…
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I'd Like to Speak to the Manager!!! 