My friends Scott and Betsey gave me a drum a few weeks ago. I played it as I sat with them . . . and I certainly mean the word “play” as childishly as you can imagine. I’m no more a musician than I am a nuclear physicist, but I played...
01 November 2022
10/30/22
City of Ft. Lauderdale seeks to privatize the drinking water of the Central Broward Region to a foreign corporation. The city owns and operates the Fiveash Treatment Plant, serving Ft. Lauderdale, Oakland Park, WIlton...
05 October 2022
I’ve been haunted by a phrase for almost a month now: “morality police.”
The news has been global. A 22-year-old woman, Mahsa Amini, was ...
15 September 2022
There they were again. The dangling irony of memorial Nikes . . .
I was walking home from my neighbor’s house. They’d just had a piano recital and I was still full of music when I saw the pair of tennis shoes flung over the...
08 September 2022
Michael suggested the name Bob’s Rhubarb Lounge.
I couldn’t stop laughing, at least on the inside. I imagined commissioning someone to make a neon sign with those words, maybe ten feet high. I’d place it in front of my house, of...
31 August 2022
Close your eyes and try to envision the ...
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