I hate to shop.  The concept of going from store to store just to find something I want to buy eludes me.  Isn’t there something BETTER to do with one’s time?  Like read a book?  But every once in a while you NEED something.  But that still doesn’t mean I’m going to rush out and […]

My father was out of control.  You never knew when he’d snap, what would set him off.  It could be something recognizable, concrete, like wrecking the car, but he also reached over the dinner table and smacked me when he heard the tines of my fork hitting my teeth.  And if you fucked up a […]

Doreen was counting on me to entertain Brian Wilson. Felice is really good at these awards dinners.  She throws her head back and laughs, looks inquisitively when hearing the most banal drivel.  Me?  After a moment inside the ballroom absolutely everything at home sounds appealing.  Not only reading the newspapers and surfing the Web, but […]

CARRY ME Carry me, carry me, carry me above the world About ninety minutes out of L.A., we hit turbulence.  Never-ending turbulence.  Just shy of scary turbulence.  The steward told us the captain said it would last all the way to Tahiti.  So we girded ourselves.  We talked, we read, we tried to relax.  But […]