Archive for the ‘Wordplay’ Category

There is a Buddhist story about using a raft to cross a river, and not carrying the raft after crossing. At a certain point, there’s no need to revisit a certain well once you’ve transcended what it had to give. I feel that way about a lot of things in my past – they are [...]

Staten Island tough guys. Fashion bloggers. Hipster bicycle enthusiasts. You’re checking your watches on the platform. Floating down Houston in your high end cold weather running pants. Making that dodgy left onto Broadway. Right? Like it barely even happened. Keep going. You’re bringing tears to my eyes folks. Maybe it’s the lack of sleep – [...]

Maine is for lovers. Maine if for couples. Maine is for fiftyplussomethings that want to get away for a long weekend. Maine is not for me. Not for a solo surfer on a mission to replicate a place and time that was definitely not this particular place and time. Circumstances had changed. Obviously the location [...]

It was incredibly hot inside the car cabin when I lost my shit. Two days, sixteen plus hours on the road. Within fifteen miles of home, and Staten Island traffic snarled up and bit me, reducing every thought to a fit of anger. The only sentence that could possibly make its way through the clouds [...]

The day had transitioned from rough early beginnings to an afternoon brimming with sunshine. The complexities of the AM had been sacrificed in the Atlantic. The water was warm, the waves decent. Enough to conjure distant memories of a Costa Rican November. It was one of those moments, where frustration and bewilderment give way to [...]

The city belongs to youth. It does. Don’t argue with me. Because kids care. Twentysomething is too close to adolescence. The hormones are still fading, yet still in effect. Fashion matters. Music matters. Style matters. Opinions matter. Relationships are a wild ride whose every twist and turn, no matter how minute, is story for the [...]

A thirst for mutually shared adventure. For fun. Other people can take you new places, make you think new thoughts. Destroy the comfort zone. Once again, waiting on a friend gives a body time to think about things. Scribbling furiously in a notepad, somethings the thoughts come too quickly, the revelations even. In the light [...]

The same place as a month and a half ago… Mentally speaking. This ground zero. Every opportunity for reflection and stillness, at the cost of …. What? Either under a Puerto Rican moon, or beneath the shimmering lights of an Atlantic City casino, there is time to be alone with your thoughts, ignore the noise. [...]

As soon as he walked in the door, he heard a quick shuffling of feet and someone attempted to crown him in the back of the head. Luckily, Moose stepped in. By the time he turned around, Moose was shoving the other gentleman backwards while the shovee littered the air with anything profane that came [...]

He was sprinting down the alleyway now. It wasn’t until the second street came up that his breath became ragged. He was woefully out of shape. Woefully ­ he paused at the corner of M and Wisconsin, the crowd pushing up against him. Shoppers, lovers, families looking for a good meal. Or a quick meal. [...]