Living

  • Today, I Turn 40

    “40 Isn’t old if you’re a tree” That was a shirt my dad got. I remember it, remember feeling how old he’d become, an oldness that would, from that point on, never leave him. Not having been raised by him, I’d like to know how he felt then, wearing that shirt. I think you’re as…

  • White Collar Blues: The Pain of Doing Very Little

    “I’d relax, I’d sit on my ass all day, I would do nothing.” A bunch of us heard Peter Gibbons announce that in Office Space and half-howled in laughter, while nodding. Yes. That’s what I want. Work sucks. I’m 1 or 3 or 5 years into my first shitty office job. And this is life?…