Published in New Skin, Made from Old·PinnedMember-onlyAre Your Distractions Actually Inspirations?On finding inspirations from your distractions during Covid — (Originally written for the introduction to the 11.28.2020 Weekly Atticus newsletter sent each Saturday from Atticus Review.) I’m writing this the day before Thanksgiving and the day after my birthday, 2020. The three days will be remarkably similar to one-another in that I will have done mostly the same…Inspiration7 min readInspiration7 min read
Published in Dog Is Us·Mar 10Member-onlyOn Finding that Not All Songs Are Love Songsthe language I used to know has disappeared with your sound, your scent, and with me no longer near it, I have wasted entire days and months trying to smell, to hear it, among the virus and death, that late artifact tongue that spoke only of you and to you and for you…Poetry2 min readPoetry2 min read
Published in New Skin, Made from Old·Feb 6, 2021Member-onlyMirror GratitudeThis is the second mirror I’ve had hanging here on the back of this closet door. The first one shattered almost exactly a year ago (2/4/2020) when I put my hand into it. Twice. In quick succession. Wound up with glass all over my bedroom floor. And lodged in…Awakening5 min readAwakening5 min read
Published in Dog Is Us·Dec 31, 2020Member-onlyForward/Back, Part Two, OrA Present Such as This (Part One, Here) I used to think the looking back would bring about the looking forward, would be it’s own reward, a thing to hold on to forever, and permanent — the having done, the having sung, the having been. but even using the most…Dogs2 min readDogs2 min read
Published in Dog Is Us·Dec 21, 2020Member-onlySurrenderit is unbecoming to surrender your’n self to a Bald Man who wants to take your’n ball only to throw it forth and yonDogs1 min readDogs1 min read
Published in New Skin, Made from Old·Dec 19, 2020Member-onlyLean into Possibility Again(Originally written for the introduction to the 12.19.2020 Weekly Atticus Newsletter sent each Saturday from Atticus Review.) `This will be the final Weekly Atticus of 2020. After today, we will take a three-week break and will return to our regular publishing schedule on January 11th, 2021. …Possibility5 min readPossibility5 min read
Published in Dog Is Us·Dec 4, 2020Member-onlyWe Are Together, Andwe are together, and ones who found fire together, chins held high together —Dogs1 min readDogs1 min read
Published in Dog Is Us·Nov 6, 2020Member-onlyA Rome, By Any Other Namewe are lucky, Runt, to have been alive during the American blip to have taken a piss in this post-Cambrian lava dripDogs1 min readDogs1 min read
Nov 1, 2020Member-onlyWe Are In That Moment Now: A Reason to Vote(A Plea to Facebook Friends) Last month, I read a post from a FB friend Jason which I thought was a powerful personal statement about this moment in US history from the perspective of a Jewish American. His post brings up certain things I’d been thinking about and trying to…Election 20205 min readElection 20205 min read
Published in Dog Is Us·Mar 20, 2020Member-onlyBewilderment and the Abstractiondo the daily doing of things in spite of the daily diversion and distraction.Dogs1 min readDogs1 min read
