It's that dream that we carry with us ( Read more... )

because this is what you do. get up ( Read more... )

I left this morning saying 'I love you ( Read more... )

Everyone is after me to exercise, get in shape, play football, rush about, even go swimming and flying. Fair enough ( Read more... )

The second half of my life will be black ( Read more... )

"Once a baby lizard loved me so completely,
he moved into my apartment and died of hunger."

( Love )

When grief comes to you as a purple gorilla ( Read more... )

On the red-eye from Seattle, a two year-old ( Read more... )

by Vladimir Nabokov
Ever since I was 16, this has been my favorite poem.

To many things I've said the word that cheats
the lips and leaves them parted (thus: prash-chai
which means "good-bye") -- to furnished flats, to streets ( Read more... )

If it's any consolation, when your wife took me ( Read more... )