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How to skirt messy election questions at holiday dinners and preserve your sanity. And now a public service announcement for all you prodigal sons and daughters making the pilgrimage back home for the annual Turkey … Read more
“The Meddler” — a film review by Gary Chew It was a notion of mine that The Meddler would backstory (a new verb?) as autobiographical. I was right. Lorene Scafaria’s new so-titled film — written … Read more
Journal entry: July 9, 1980 (age 11) – Babysitter Up until this summer, my 12-year-old brother, Dan, and I have had pretty good luck with our parents’ choice of babysitters. When we were very young, … Read more
Journal entry: December 27, 1989 (age 20) – Empty Nest Something is terribly wrong with my mother. I’m home on Christmas break from SUNY Oswego, and I was out with some of my childhood chums … Read more
Journal entry: October 14, 1986 (age 17) – Career Talk My father is a hard worker and an accomplished professional. He started working and contributing to his family’s household income at the age of 12, … Read more
Journal entry: May 23, 1977 (age 8) Adults are always asking me, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” My standard answer is “Taller.” (A fully formed cerebral cortex also strikes me … Read more
Journal entry: September 19, 2010 (age 41) – Paper Towels It was high noon when I dismounted my Honda Civic and ambled toward a lonesome cluster of buildings in the middle of no man’s land. … Read more
Journal entry: September 14, 1980 (age 11) – Parish Picnic Party People I’m always sorta fidgety at Mass, but this morning, I was fidgetacular. I squirmed in my seat during a particularly long letter from … Read more
Journal entry: March 26, 1978 (age 8) – Easter “Your Easter basket fell out of the sky.” The penciled note, in my mom’s blocky print, was waiting for me on the kitchen table this morning. … Read more
Journal entry: July 14, 1984 (age 15) – Tall Ships I squinted ahead, along the slowly snaking line of people. The line looked long enough to be waiting for a half-off sale on Cabbage Patch … Read more