author - In The Pines

An orange, black and white tiger with yellow eyes stalks through long, green grass.

ICU

3rd Floor Tigers

From my bed I could see into the hallway, and out to the nurses station where a pair of bored looking women in colorful scrubs sat typing away on aging desktop computers. But there was something else. A shadow. Something stalking.

A white man in blue jeans, a blue and white striped shirt and a blue and red baseball cap is hand feeding a wallaby

Australia

How Not to Lose Your Virginity in Australia (Vol 1?)

Sorry mom.

An old photo of the USS Arizona Memorial, a white marble structure over water.

nostalgia

Paradise and Dashboard Lights

Beside my bed is a notebook where I jot ideas that come to me in the moments before sleep. On the last page I have written, “THE HOOK IS YOU DON’T HAVE THE FUCKING WORDS TODAY JUST LIKE YOU DIDN’T HAVE THE WORDS 26 YEARS AGO!” It’s true I guess.

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It's Not Happening Today

I’ll walk Jack and take a shower and I’ll figure it out. It'll be so clear in my head but by the time I’m toweled off it’ll be faded away like the steam from the shower, gone.

A black mutt with white on his chest and paws sits in the sun on a dirty back porch.

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A Black Dog in the Sun

I couldn't help but shake my head. "You motherfucker..." Jack just looked at me with big sad eyes and wagged his tail. "Whole goddamned world is falling apart and you're just sitting in a sunbeam." If a dog could shrug Jack would've.

About

I Don't Want to Do This (An Introduction)

So here I am. Blogging. Like some pretentious Brooklynite with a trust fund.