I May Be Some Time

I’ve filled all the pages of my current notebook, which begins April 20, 2025. I see now  that I have been careless about dating the entries...

    Both my wife and I are possessed of the need to own many notebooks and journals. And so, I learn, is my son.  I pick up one and open it....

    I wrote this in 1978 when I was 25 years old. It was the first piece I wrote that I considered “finished.”  The writing is somewhat emba...

  My favorite paragraph from Patti Smith’s   Bread of Angels : “That spring, the lilacs bloomed, the long-haired branches of our ancient wil...

Dropping our son off at the airport I expected I might cry a little, but the airport drop-off scene   was so  intense and manic that all my ...