And what a vertigo she must have created for the trapped and the crippled who saw her escaping. This stocky dove, this fist with wings, tamp...

our old friend austin , a fellow member of joe's darts team when we lived in hell's kitchen long ago and the earth was flat, spent a...

i woke up with the wisps of an imagined former office in my head. this is a regular thing: once every few months i dream up a version of the...

2018: THE YEAR IN REVIEW i asked the maintenance office to unclog our tub. i ate a bunch of peanuts and threw the shells on the floor. i ...

when you look down at the invalid pigeon curled against your chest and realize her white head is pink because you kissed it.

i roped joe into a facebook meme the other night. WITHOUT prompting, ask your significant other these questions and write EXACTLY what they...

so we were in norway and iceland for two weeks. it was stupendous, even though i now seem unable to sleep past nine! (on a sunday. so gross...

one of the wildlife hospital staffers asked me if i'd been using my name tag to sign in at their new tablet kiosk in the basement treatm...

the dirty dozen {notes from my hometown police blotter, as reported by the oc register *} Suspicious person in a vehicle. 12:08 p.m. The c...

What we build not only reflects but determines who we are and who we'll be. 'A city is an attempt at a kind of collective immortalit...

the dirty dozen {twelve things i learned in tonight's squirrel-care class} * 01 "talking to them is OK, because they will eventua...

And Autobiography is a lot of a bit much — nearly 500 pages, with tiny margins and no index. So instead of flipping around looking for ...