You don't get out by your own devices. Â Contrary to popular opinion, if life has given you a beating, or several, your bootstraps were likely one of the weapons used against you and will therefore snap when you attempt to haul yourself up by them. Dorothy, and every other fairy story heroine, has proven to…Read more Friends of the Tin Man
Chaos and Control
My mother would be the first to point out that you could eat off my floors. But the way she would tell you was as if to mock me, as if to let you know of the drastic and rigid handicap I'm cursed with; some death-grip, psycho inability to let go. She'd monitor me at…Read more Chaos and Control
Rigid
You're never as thin as you intend to be before people begin insisting you eat more than cigarettes and black coffee. You'll also never decrease enough to satisfy the distorted images of your body in the reflections of shop windows and dressing room mirrors. Photographs might as well come with blindfolds or a razor kit.…Read more Rigid
Whimper
This weekend I stood in front of my neighbor’s house holding a cookie for her dog. She keeps her dog chained up inside a cage in her yard. The dog stopped whimpering and crying out most of the day, about a year ago. I got to watch her dog slowly disintegrate into learned helplessness over…Read more Whimper
Ripped
That was the sound my hamstring made while I was stretching after a workout. It was so loud the guy at the front desk actually came into the gym to ask what it was. It sounded like Hulk Hogan shredding his infamous yellow and red tank. I was sitting on the floor in a little…Read more Ripped
The 5th Element
A decade or so ago he left a candle burning in our home office which caught fire and nearly burned down our apartment. This was unlike him. It had to be gutted, re-carpeted and repainted; the fire was so hot it melted our computer and created a secondary electrical fire that shut down the phone lines.…Read more The 5th Element
Dirty, Sticky, Mess
You chop, peel, shave, grate, exfoliate...steam, press, juice and preen. Your body is a smooth, scented, waxed surface awaiting to be frosted in fondant like a freshly baked cake, right out of the freezer...do you sincerely mean to please her? Somehow I doubt you, the label on the side of the box...interested only in getting…Read more Dirty, Sticky, Mess
Born in Providence 