Hallmark says that Home is where the heart is, and on principle I’m not inclined to argue with them. I would perhaps suggest the caveat that Home is an issue of personal freedom, the space in which you have the capacity to be confident in yourself and your various iterations, and as such is of
Thanks to all of you who came out and said goodbye. It was nice to see everyone and get some good vibrations prior to leaving on my trip. My only regret is that there wasn’t more time to spend with each of you, by which I mean: wouldn’t it have been nice if there had
Below is the text of my initial email outlining my travel plans. For those (very few and stout-hearted) of you who actually read the original email, you needn’t suffer twice. Mostly I’m putting this up here to give a little narrative cohesion to the whole process, a beginning to what will hopefully be a good
The following are links to sites maintained by some fine folks I know who are engaged in activities more interesting than the banal and more involved than Facebook.  Most of them are decent people (there are a couple obvious exceptions, but let’s not get hung-up naming names) and I’d personally recommend at least 70% of the
True and Total Happiness is a short story I wrote in the fall of 2007. At the time I’d been reading a lot of short stories by Donald Barthelme and thinking about things, which is what writers seem to do with large portions of their time. I make reference to Barthelme not in an attempt
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