Eating Walnuts with Liars

You even shatter the sensations of time and space into split seconds and instant replays. - Max Schumacher, Network Wizards tried for ...

You’d want me to start by thanking you so I’ll obey. Thank you, For tucking us in with pomegranate-scented sheets, And lining our cribs with...

If desperation were a cat, I would be a tiger.  If eagerness could play pretend, I would be a liger.  If waiting is like eating ...

When I drank, I clung to men. When I drank, I refuted religion. When I drank, I surrendered to any carnal whim. The particular night I’m ...

What we did at the bar was dumb-- (the floppy dancing and the singing, the sloppy kissing then the fingering.) I went outside After learning...

Native Son by Richard Wright My rating: 5 of 5 stars Not since Anna Karenina have my conceptions about a book been so mistaken (one that...

I've drawn a picture….metaphorically speaking,  Of the man who claimed my poetry  was ‘neither good nor bad,’  and wrought  wit...

Push by Sapphire My rating: 4 of 5 stars I've been going through a YA phase (you know, the Lemony Snickets and Harry Potters of the ...

For Iranians, forget about cleanliness being next to godliness; it's everything—God and the universe times infinity. Basic sterilizatio...

An object that anchors a memory, an idea, an obsession. That’s what this is about; an evocative object—turning and burning in my brain...

Once I was drunk for seven years: 2007-2014. Outside of a bravado-filled 46 days in 2009 proving my ability to quit “anytime I wanted,”...

Continuing my categorizations of those nice folks in AA... I mean, what was so bad in her life? It’s not that I think one has to lose  e...

Continuing my categorizations of the nice folks in AA... He will casually share that he served time while awaiting all the respect the wor...

Continuing my catalogue of those nice folks in AA This is where I fit—my slot: the over-educated and neurotic individual intellectuali...

Continuing my catalogue of those nice folks in AA Recovering alcoholics are as insecure and dependent as teenagers. Our spiritual, men...

Continuing my catalogue of those nice folks in AA Wow! These guys are bad ass!...said no one. Decorated with a homemade Bugs Bunny tatto...

Continuing my catalogue of the nice folks in AA... An Alcoholics Anonymous slogan I feel particularly neutral towards is “we are not a g...