My latest piece for Waxwing is by far my most personal. I’m looking at Joni Mitchell’s music and how it remains a bridge to my mother nine years after her death.
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My latest piece for The Stories on Medium is up. It’s about my family, the city the centered around for generations, and the cemetery I visit to pay my respects.
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The phone call came at one in the morning, just as I was leaving the High-Hat Lounge. My brother-in-law never sounds frantic, and he didn’t sound frantic now. But he was calling me at one in the morning, and that …
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My first view of the Pacific came after driving through fire. If you’ve been following the news, you know about the wildfires that are blanketing California in a thick haze of smoke. On Highway 299, for pretty much the entire …
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“Any man is old when he’s 36.” —Leon Spinks It’s a funny quote, that one. Leon Spinks was on the verge of fighting a 36 year-old Muhammad Ali when he said it. It’s the kind of thing you say when …