. . In the Spirit of Jack — a spontaneous love ode that just flowed out … to that thing they do in Lowell . . . What’s cool about LCK is — everybody’s there for Jack . . . but all on their own terms. Everybody has a completely different relationship with their family […]
Lowell Celebrates Kerouac review
October 31st, 2016 · 10 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, Real-life Adventure Tales
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Bill Clinton’s First Inauguration 1993
January 20th, 2016 · 12 Comments · Blissfully Ravaged in Democracy, Politics
. Originally published in Interchange Magazine, and TransForum Magazine, Jan. and Feb. 1993. . “We march to the music of our time.” ……………………………………….Bill Clinton at his Inauguration . Little Dorothy Washington slowly snuck up to the Iron Curtain of Oz, and peaked behind the screen. Her eyes popped when she discovered only a hungry old […]
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The Day I Heard The Tambourine Man
March 28th, 2013 · 18 Comments · Music, New York City, Real-life Adventure Tales, Weird Things About Me
The Day I Heard The Tambourine Man I, like others, was whisked away by the Gallatin genie just as I was about to drown in the requirements of my previous school. If NYU hadn’t had a school-without-walls, I wouldn’t have graduated, if you want a soundbite about it. The trade-off they offered was that […]
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A Song of Enid, I Sing
August 28th, 2011 · 36 Comments · Poetry, Weird Things About Me
Her father was an engineer on the CPR, so the whole family got to travel all over North America, when virtually no one in their town ever went more than a few miles from home. They had 5 sons, followed by 4 daughters, Enid being the first. They owned the first (and for a long time […]
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