PinnedMember-onlyThe VincidentGetting Rid Your Own Toxic Masculinity — 👇🏾 👇🏾 Audio version also available 👇🏾 👇🏾 After six years in the same townhouse, I moved to the Montrose area. Yeah, you fucking idiot, that part of Montrose. The part your 1980s-addled brain probably goes to when it thinks of “The Montrose.” You would’ve probably been the target…Toxic Masculinity28 min readToxic Masculinity28 min read
Jul 29, 2021Member-onlyVaccine Passports are Relics of Our Colonialist PastOn Sunday the 25th of July, the French parliament reached an agreement on requiring vaccination “passports” or proof of a negative test in order to visit certain confined spaces in the country. …Covid-194 min readCovid-194 min read
Jul 6, 2021Member-onlyConsolation PriceAll of this almost blew by me. Because I was too busy hiding in my work, from the warm cocoon of my desk. I’d almost missed Sebastien knocking at my apartment door at 3am. And I knew better than to answer the door that late at night. Which, I guess…Grief14 min readGrief14 min read
Jan 18, 2021Member-onlyHolding Our BreathA few years ago, I used to be really into running. I used to be the type who’d balk when a friend would inform a gathered circle of drinking acquaintances that I was “a runner.” I’d reply, “I’m not; it’s just something I do.” I’d flutter my hands at the…Running22 min readRunning22 min read
Sep 20, 2020I Thought I Never Loved My Cat. Then He Suddenly Died.My cat Meester Nice Guy died last Sunday. I was helping a friend down the street fix some closet shelving. I was gone for 3 hours to come to find he was gone. He hadn’t been acting weird or anything up to the night before, so I’m not sure…Grief11 min readGrief11 min read
Aug 28, 2020The World Don’t Wait on UsI don’t have a Hurricane Harvey story. As is a typical thing for me: I had somewhere else to be. About a week after the rains stopped and enough of the waters receded, I got into my brother’s white suburban and drove to Telluride, Colorado. The goal was to participate…Hurricane Harvey4 min readHurricane Harvey4 min read
Feb 25, 2020Member-onlyWhy Kobe Bryant’s Death MattersI’m not someone who watches sports. It’s not really for me. For someone who grew up always playing some type of team sport and lives as active a lifestyle as I, it does seem kind of odd that I usually have very little to say on the subject nowadays. Guess…Kobe Bryant6 min readKobe Bryant6 min read
Mar 14, 2018Why Lie? I Love Pi.In the 14th century, Pope Benedict XI sent a letter to Giotto di Bondone, Florentine painter, architect and sculptor, requesting a drawing to demonstrate his skills for a potential commission at St. Peter’s Basilica. As the story goes, Giotto walked over to a canvas, dipped his brush in red paint…Pi Day5 min readPi Day5 min read
Feb 21, 2018I hired a private investigator today…I waited in my office behind my desk with my back to the door when I heard a few knocks on it. Through the sliver of window to the left of the door, I saw his right arm wearing a tweed jacket with a blue-faced watch with a stainless steel…Microfiction3 min readMicrofiction3 min read
Nov 19, 2017A Story of The TruthShe’s staring at me in the eyes, asking, pleading with me to tell her the complete truth. For once. How did she get here so fast? It usually takes 35 minutes to get here from her place. But she got here in 20 minutes after we hung up. 7:00 in…Love6 min readLove6 min read
