Aug 6Confessions of an Alcoholic Part 7: Two Years“Drink never made a man better, but it made many a man think he was better.” — Finley Peter Dunne It has been two years since I’ve had a drink. It has been two years since I let the blissful weight of fermented spirits press my head down against the…Sobriety7 min readSobriety7 min read
May 27Purgatory is an Eastbound Plane: Part 2 — TexasA Knickerbocker’s Journey to the Not-So-Wild West CONTENT WARNING: References to suicide. As the plane continued to rock, I imagined what it must have been like to have served as a bomber during the Second World War. …Prose17 min readProse17 min read
Apr 10Purgatory is an Eastbound Plane: Part 1 — CaliforniaA Knickerbocker’s Journey to the Not-So-Wild West — The plane dropped out of the sky. The woman next to me let out a scream. I looked over and saw a couple gripping onto their armrests for dear life, praying that the worst was over. The seat belt sign flashed on and the flight attendants hurriedly carted the snacks…Travel22 min readTravel22 min read
Feb 1426Or: The Silver Tongue — Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future. — Euripides I’ve been told I have a silver tongue. A silver tongue means someone is skilled at talking and is persuasive. …Prose10 min readProse10 min read
Jan 20Masculinity: The Strong, Silent TypeThe Rise of the Machismo Anti-Hero & How Media Shapes and Reflects Our Understanding of Masculinity — “Sometimes, how you ingest this idea of masculinity as projected onto you by the world could be the difference of life and death.” — Barry Jenkins More than 20 years after its premiere, I finally managed to watch and complete HBO’s “The Sopranos”. I was able to breeze through the…Masculinity13 min readMasculinity13 min read
Dec 6, 2022Lonely TownA Meditation on Depression, Edward Hopper, and German-Speaking Women. — “A Town’s A Lonely Town, When You Pass Through, And There Is No One Waiting There For You, Then It’s A Lonely Town…” — “Lonely Town” from Leonard Bernstein’s “On the Town” There’s such a thing as seasonal depression but, to me, it presents an interesting issue: am I depressed…Prose11 min readProse11 min read
Nov 10, 2022False Starts“This is just a rough cut, you know? I don’t have the titles in yet and the underscoring’s not in. It’s not really finished. I need more time.” — Joe Gideon from All That Jazz I haven’t felt a strong urge to write for quite some time now. Truth be…Prose8 min readProse8 min read
Aug 1, 2022Confessions of an Alcoholic Part 6: One Year“Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.” — Finley Peter Dunne Today marks one year of sobriety. One year of sitting uneasily on a wagon traveling down a bumpy, winding road. One year of wincing as I…Alcohol9 min readAlcohol9 min read
May 22, 2022The War On WomenGrowing up as a boy, as a little less than half of the population does, I was well aware of the differences between myself and the opposite sex. Not merely the physical differences but the manner in which we were expected to conduct ourselves. I was taught to be tough…Women9 min readWomen9 min read
Apr 21, 2022Confessions of an Alcoholic Part 5: Bobbing Up and Down the River“If the river was whiskey and I was a duck, I’d dive to the bottom and I’d never come up, Oh, tell me how long have I got to wait? Oh, can I get you now, must I hesitate?…” — Hesitation Blues (If the River Was Whiskey), Traditional 9 months…Alcohol6 min readAlcohol6 min read
