Wrapping Up
Dear Readers, an apology for the lapse in publication! As outlined in the essay of a few months ago, I was the sole person running a three person department...
Notes at Intervals
After the life-altering departure of 2/3 of the wine team at my job, and shouldering the work load of three since mid-August, I did recently decamp to Boston...
Summer’s End
I am taking a long break from writing about the incoherent, incredibly dangerous, and ridiculously incompetent GOP administration now in control. I’d like...
Recent Reads
Life in Trump’s America remains an enervating and conscience-shocking slog, but nonetheless onward we must press. Here are some excellent pieces of writing...
“Know who you are at every age”
Midway through Moonstruck, Olympia Dukakis’ character is propositioned by a sex-addicted NYU professor played by the late, great John Mahoney, while her...
“Seasons of Love”
In what has to have been the most jam-packed weekend of attractions we’ve heretofore experienced in our adult lives, I began last Saturday morning...
“Not if you don't want it to be…”
“You said that maybe it's over / Not if you don't want it to be / For once in your life, / here's your miracle / Stand up and fight(This is it) / Make no...
Bureaucracy Now!
For W.F.A. I went to get a Real ID a few days ago. Having reasonably concluded, for just under a decade, that the government’s “hard” deadline would almost...
“This Mess We’re In”(Part Two)
“The sunrise/ Over the river/ The freeway/ Reminding/ Of this mess we're in/ and/ (Oh) The city sun sets over me.” This Mess We’re In -P.J. Harvey We are...
“Today’s Thirsty Oligarch”
“But what a fool believes he sees/ No wise man has the power to reason away.” “What A Fool Believes” ——-Michael McDonald A couple of weeks ago, at forty-...
That which is awesome!
I was working on a more political essay (o tempora, o mores, o. m.g.),but it is the weekend (improbably my weekend, is now the weekend), and I am inclined to...
Subscriber Alert
As I migrated publishing sites, all paid subscriptions will now be annually renewed through Buttondown. To avoid double billing, I shut off billing through...
“Lotta Stories…”
A couple of years ago, my dear Aunt suggested I should compile some of my late mother’s expressions. As we are living through a moment as a Nation that is...
Fragile
“On and on the rain will say/ How fragile we are how fragile we are/ How fragile we are/ how fragile we are” “Fragile” -Sting In “One Art,” Bishop, among the...
Hello from Buttondown…
Dear Readers, I have officially made the move to a new hosting platform. A new essay will be out soon! Cheers, Mark
Site Migration
Dear Readers, I am in the process of switching my email client. Substack is not a platform I want to be continue to be associated with in the present moment....
An Interview with Aunt Mary
“If you can only say one prayer, say thank you.”
“Like sands through the hourglass”
As the muskies began jostling their way past Federal building security last weekend, and began pillaging and futzing with the code underlying entire digital...
“This mess we’re in”
I was going to write something about the first few days of the new Republican administration, but the general pointless stupidity is already even worse than...
The Year of the Snake
As this new administration comes to power with the thinnest margins of Congressional control imaginable, the corporate overcorrection towards “anti-woke” and...