The other day I remembered that you used to keep a green tooth brush for me in your bathroom. I remembered that book, how we never lived out the things it said, and how many things I’ve said that I maybe don’t mean. I’ll eat beet salad at this desk alone until I’m part of an inside joke. I wish I could have done it better. — I Can’t Believe I’m Doing This
This article appears in Jan 17-23, 2013.


Things don’t always work the way we thought they could or should have and life can throw some real curves sometimes but,for the love of God, nobody needs to eat beet salad.
If your heart’s in the right place maybe you’d deserve a second chance.
I’d maim a random stranger…
prison food HAS to be better than that.