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Wrath on Full Display

It’s not often I finish a book and experience a welling of tears and realize I’ve just read a great work of American literature. But John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath just did it to me. I think I read the novel in high school, although I remember nothing of it. I came into it […]

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August

Scorchy July is now behind usSummer is halfway throughOpen your mind to August Shadows become a bit more robustThe days have an angled castWilliam Faulkner wrote The Light in August Legend says people feel more lustIn April many babies are bornSomething in the air in August It’s a time when people can combustWatch Pacino in […]

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Many Protagonists, Many Stories

Anyone who reads this blog knows that I’m a fan of multilinear films and novels, which are constructed around multiple protagonists with intersecting storylines and driven by a central theme. So when Owen told me he watched the film Crash (2004), I was keenly interested in his reaction. As a side note, I included Crash […]

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Karaoke is Coming

I’ve given talks about my books and answered questions from readers. I’ve stood in front of audiences and hosted business presentations. I’ve confidently pitched marketing ideas to skeptical executives. I’ve performed timed slide presentations at Pecha Kucha nights. I’ve given eulogies at funerals and toasts at weddings. None of these public speaking situations did me […]

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Before Darkness Falls

I walk into this view and greedily soak in every color and texture until I’m drunk on beauty, cool sand beneath my feet, demure waves rippling onto shore and out again, sun spraying the sky pink and casting golden upon the water, a solitary bird my companion, the horizon and the tree line the extent […]

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“Friendship” the Movie

A subset of the Delmar Dads Movie Club went to the Spectrum Theater last night and saw “Friendship,” a cringey black comedy starring the actor and comedian Tim Robinson, whom I’d never heard of, but apparently is popular. It was my turn to choose what film we’d see on the second Wednesday of this month, […]

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Mom and The Magic Carpet

I must have been six or seven years old, hopefully not nine or ten. Our family was at Crystal Beach, an amusement park located on the shore of Lake Erie in Ontario. We went there once every summer, having earned ride tickets based on the grades we got on our report cards. My older siblings […]

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Men Who Care

We are emotionally available, we have words to express our feelings. We rally for our friend in need. We are men. I can’t trust her. You shouldn’t trust her. She’s admitted to everything I’ve found out but nothing more. You’ve got her cornered. She’s on the defensive. She won’t even talk to me. Let’s have […]

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The Sad Sound of the Saw

I hear the jagged revving of chainsaws in my neighborhood and I head outside to investigate. A few houses down the block from mine a tree removal crew is on the job, a crane extending high into the canopy, a chipper idling in the road ready to chomp. Multiple trees are being taken down in […]

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The Gen Z Gaze

The New York Post is not one of my go-to information sources, but you never know what will show up in your feed, and I clicked on an article about something called the Gen Z gaze. The first line in the article: “If you’ve ever walked up to a cashier or front desk and been […]

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