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July 2011

July 05, 2011

Time to Get Your Clark Kent On?

As everyone knows, the newspaper industry certainly isn't what it used to be. Print circulation...

June 2011

June 23, 2011

Drunk Driving Wrong? We’ll Drink to That

Relative to Ryan Dunn's maybe having died from driving drunk: Drunk driving is awful. No...

June 16, 2011

Love Loses: Barnes and Noble’s Big Fat Bell Book Fail

If you read John Wins: When Rob Bell's Editor Calls, you know I'm thinking about...

June 14, 2011

Waiting for the Next

The YMCA locker room smelled like tile, wood and chlorine. My dad and I getting...

June 02, 2011

A Scene From My Childhood: Before the Divorce

I've gotten in some very kind emails asking about my childhood. So I thought I'd...

June 01, 2011

My Foolproof Method for Avoiding Low Self-Esteem

Apropos of yesterday's Young Woman: This, Finally, Is Your World, my wife Catherine asked me...

May 2011

May 20, 2011

My (Real) End of the World Letter

The last thing I would write online.

May 06, 2011

Mother’s Day: Just Two Tardy Gay Winos and an Unfortunate Little Person

I love mothers. Who doesn't? I even love my own mother--which is way too much...

April 2011

April 25, 2011

When Worlds Don’t Collide

Here's a lovely comment left on I'm OK - You're Not: The Message We're Giving...

April 23, 2011

Easter Eve, 2011

A meditation on Easter Eve.

April 06, 2011

“Hop”: So Racist It Hurts

The message of this children's movie couldn't be more caustic.

March 2011

March 30, 2011

Killed by the Wall Street Journal!

One minute you're about to be completely famous. The next you're ... totally not.

March 21, 2011

It Finally Happened: I Forgot How Old I Am

And that's how I, born a vampire lost in time, learned that doctors are liars.

March 03, 2011

An Extinct Cougar Visits Me

This is one time where it's not good for a dream to come true.

February 2011

February 17, 2011

Idiot of the Later; Genius of the Now

Why I am like I am.

February 16, 2011

A Suicidal Pee-Soaked Thumb-Sucking Alcoholic Mini-Vampire

Now I understand these things as signs of a severely unhappy kid. Then, they were...

February 13, 2011

“Dad! Go To Your Room!”

It's one thing to write off my father when he's healthy. It's another to write...

February 10, 2011

“Love, Whatsisname.”

As a child, I wrote my dad a note most every night. I assumed they...

February 08, 2011

What can you do with your terrible parents?

If you want to learn how to finally and fully resolve your love-hate relationship with...

February 08, 2011

Yikes! My Dad Almost HIT Me!

My dad just came that close to slapping me silly. I'm fifty-two.

February 07, 2011

Life is Like a Half a Box of Chocolates

Yesterday I drove my dad to CVS pharmacy. "Turn left! Turn left here!" he boomed...

February 05, 2011

Hello From Crazy Town

So remember how I was going to ask God to help me figure out what...

February 04, 2011

I Give Up. Thank God!

Today I found out my dad is getting seriously minor league medical care. He has...

February 03, 2011

How to Make Your Father’s Insults Mean Nothing

I've seen what happens to the lives of people who insist they can create for...

February 01, 2011

Father Has No Idea What’s Best

My visit with my aging, dysfunctional father begins.

January 2011

January 29, 2011

I was in an insane asylum

I don't wonder too much about what hell might be like. I already know.

January 27, 2011

The Tortured Old Lady Who Died Holding My Hand When I Was 10

When I was ten an old lady held my hand as she died screaming of...

January 25, 2011

Death, Be Not Stupid

The bad news is that, by all accounts, my father is dying. The good news...

January 16, 2011

The “God Writes Through Me” Thing

You can't write anything truly creative without channeling whatever you think of as God.

January 07, 2011

Why 2011 is a Leap Year For Me

2011 is a leap year for me. Where I'll land is anybody's guess.