His eyes are what I remember most: dark, confident, evil. A suspected serial killer, in his own mind he was a cause célèbre walking the halls of One East with a self-aggrandized swagger that led us staff to believe he was guilty of using an emergency/… Read full post »

Halloween scared me. For the past nineteen Halloweens, I’ve hid in the darkness, not wanting to greet eager trick-or-treaters with faux surprise and candy bar rewards. I’d sit in my living room clutching memories of a young boy who fell… Read full post »

Picture six children growing in the 1960s. They live in the northeast, some might say in middle class suburbia. On the exterior, their lives seem normal, but to those children normal didn’t exist. Their father, a real estate agent by profession, was the darkest of evil; their mother,… Read full post »

The 4^th of July holiday evokes many emotions. I’ll laugh and banter with family and friends as we eat barbeque—perhaps indulge in a few beers. The Red Sox will play ball just for us on a TV set up at poolside. My brother-in-law will challenge all with his butt-bounce off the/… Read full post »

Do we still remember the Republican adulation of General David Petraeus? He came before Congress to advocate in favor of the “surge” in Iraq. He soared like a neo-con hawk ready to swoop down and feed on the far-left intellect that broke rank with the Bush Administration’s Mid-East… Read full post »

Death has laughed at me many times, sometimes from distance, other times slapping me on the shoulder proclaiming, “Ain’t this a hoot?”

Death’s hilarity eludes me. Don’t get me wrong, I love humor, shit, sometimes my humor-mode kicks in when I’m writing, talking to… Read full post »