My Excruciatingly Sensitive Boyhood
Hot July days always make me think of my childhood, playing indoors at my mother’s direction to avoid sunburn. If I wanted my sister to play cars with me I had to play dolls with her first. […]
Hot July days always make me think of my childhood, playing indoors at my mother’s direction to avoid sunburn. If I wanted my sister to play cars with me I had to play dolls with her first. […]
A star high school quarterback was persuaded to play football at Rice University by a handwritten letter its offensive coordinator wrote to his cat. Sports Illustrated “With these feet, I’m gonna need high-tops, like Johnny Unitas.” […]
Italy is shopping for a corporate sponsor to shell out $33 million to refurbish the 2,000-year-old Colosseum. Bloomberg News We were bogged down in traffic as we approached the stadium, but we eventually found […]
HOLLYWOOD. Mike Schnepper thought he had it made a decade ago after a string of films in which he played fresh-faced teens in gross-out comedies, including I Know What You’re Scratching, While Your Mom’s Away, and […]
DEDHAM, Mass. When Marlene Jacobson’s 70-year-old husband Frank was diagnosed with Geriatric Osgood Schlatter’s Disease last year, she was prepared. “He’d had it as a boy, but it had been in remission for sixty years,” […]
GRAIN VALLEY, Iowa. This town of 10,143 in southeast Iowa proclaimed itself the “Starch Capital of America” in 1991 after a Parade Magazine survey found that residents depended on starchy foods such as potatoes, bread […]
I first encountered Charles Baudelaire as a sophomore in college when I read Les Fleurs du mal, and to say that dawn broke on Marblehead, as the expression has it here in Massachusetts, would not […]
It’s Saturday, which means a day of preparation for a gig tonight with my band, The Blue Nuns, the only (I’m pretty sure) Chicago-style blues band in America that dresses in the habits of the […]
SOMERVILLE, Mass. When this suburb of Boston decided to become a “sister city” with Pamplona, Spain a decade ago, few realized what it would mean for the many cat-owners who live here. El gato de […]
Like every red-blooded American boy of a certain age–gay or straight–the first time I saw Judy Garland I fell deeply and tragically in love. Those big cocker spaniel eyes; the quivering lip when faced with […]