I doubt anyone has ever done this, but I’m pretty sure you could draw a line from geek to nerd to freak as a continuum of increasing intelligence and decreasing social aptitude. Me? I’m good with people. And so it is my interest in – not my understanding of – most things tech that keeps [...]

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Honestly, I’ve never been much of a reader.  I’m more of a start, get distracted, lose interest kind of guy.  But I did just finish reading my first complete eBook. (No, it wasn’t Winnie the Pooh.) And I’m not alone.  Amazon now tells us that they’re selling more eBooks than regular books.  Author’s Guild President, [...]

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Below is one of my more recent short stories. Before you read it, please allow me this brief prologue: To my friends who may find this story less than tasteful, my apologies. To my friend upon who’s experience this story is loosely based, you are my hero. To other readers (all 6 of you), I [...]

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So you’ve just read that book. You know, that book that totally grabbed you and kept you up all night to finish “just one more page.” It’s the book that made you want to be a lawyer or fall in love all over again or be Jewish. Well, maybe you didn’t read that last one. [...]

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At a time in my life when I am discovering what “father” really means, I find myself working harder than ever to reconcile who I am with who I hope to be . . . as a dad, as a husband, as a man.  The following is a short story about a young man who’s [...]

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Does it ever bother you when you read a novel and can’t seem to understand what the title means?  One would think that a poetic title would find its derivation somewhere in the story and (at the very least) hinted at somewhere between the dedication and “The End.” But this is so often not the [...]

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I read Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying in high school.  I even wrote a literary critique on the book.  Of course I merely compiled and reconstructed the thoughts of other noted scholars on the subject.  This earned me an “A,” and so I was happy. The End. What it did not earn me was a [...]

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