[When I wrote this in 2010, people could no longer be “busted” in Massachusetts for possessing small amounts of marijuana, but medical marijuana was a pipe dream. Pot was underground. Re-reading this in 2016, it seems remarkable that I thought this was worth a story.] When I got up this morning, my brain was hazy. I […]
Tag: Stories
Bloggage
I have blogger’s block. I’ve rediscovered my baggage about writing. I am suffering from bloggage. A sufficient number of my kind readers have responded positively to my blog that I’ve been “trying on” thinking of myself as A Writer. I’ve sought, received, and somewhat followed, excellent advice. I’ve remembered the supposition that being A Writer […]
An [Un]Eventful Twilight Boat Ride
In the middle of last summer, during our family vacation in New York’s Adirondacks, we went on a lake tour and narrowly avoided the dangers of my imagination. A bustling cross-country ski center in the winter, Lapland Lake is a quiet retreat the rest of the year, shared only by those staying in the ten […]
Dreidel dreidel dreidel
“Come on, come on, let’s light the candles!” we called upstairs to our son. He felt badly that he hadn’t gotten us Hanukkah presents, but he’d come up with a solution, and tonight was the night. He wrote up a list of times from which we could choose when we would light the candles. We each […]
