2010: The best and worst of Rapid Eye Reality
Looking back at 2010, I’m surprised I survived. In the span of 12 months, I found myself under a tsunami warning; I was lightly assaulted by Nelly and who I still suspect to be...
Yearly Archive: 2010
Hookers and johns of suburbia
It was a late-December South Carolina cold, the kind that looks warm from a Minnesota window but sneaks up on you when you leave the house with too much exposed skin. I was in...
The reasons I’m happy
I woke today more content than I’ve been in some time. As I said to my wife, I expect it to get better, but even if it doesn’t, I am as happy as I...
Four fathers
It’s a two-hour flight from Atlanta to Springfield, Missouri, one that leaves un-argued that Atlanta is a Cher-Madonna-Bono-city, while Springfield requires a state designation to determine whether it is Brad Pitt or a Brad...
Iceman cometh
My dad taught me many things: how to play in the key of G, how to shave, how to eat four pounds of crab legs without throwing up in public. I can’t assign a...
The life cycle of a vomiter
Stage 1: The body’s will–Notable during the first several years of a child’s life, Stage 1 is exhibited by body and mind exhibiting no will as it relates to vomiting. What wants to come...
Eric Nicholson, ten years later
Eric Nicholson donated a pint of blood, told his wife Misty he loved her, and went back to work. It was December 6, 2000, a cold, clear day in Greenville, South Carolina. I don’t...
November minutiae
Just one more month to go before I can discontinue this obligatory monthly update on the mundanities of my life. Here, because I have more to type than fingers to write it, is the...
Luckiest man
I take compliments badly. Always have. A good friend told me many years ago (and he probably doesn’t even remember it) that when somebody offers me a compliment, I should learn to not over-think...
Running man
The man’s eyes were bloodshoot and wild, like he was looking past everything his drivers could see and through a window that wasn’t there. When he spoke, the words came out of his mouth,...
And so…LA
Howard and I were walking down 8th street when I saw the rat. It was as big as my shoe and scurrying under a parked car. “My wife wouldn’t live here because of that,”...
The Republican Revolution 2010
I am prepared for election day. This November 2 is set to be one of the most historic days in all of modern politics and I am ready. I have grown my hair out...
October minutiae
Only two more months of posting this ridiculous drivel. October was a month that I pegged to achieve one of the goals I set a year ago. It’s something thousands of people could do,...
Halloween story 2010
There is probably a good reason we all don’t circle around a Halloween tree and exchange gifts at midnight of October 31st. No matter. Halloween remains one of my favorite holidays and one I...