See Lowell's new city seal!
I’ll be talking about my book, “Limericks of Loss And Regret,” at the Oak Bluffs Public Library...
My byline appeared in Los Angeles Magazine in June, 2021 What better way to reintroduce Los Angeles...
Neil Peart was in touch with some reality beyond the gilded cage.
Los Angeles has conducted a Burial of the Unclaimed Dead since 1896.
"If Marty Barrett is fifty, what does that mean for me?"
If one has spent a considerable amount of time in Coalinga, can you really be surprised when...
Today we hoist a Button Gwinnett for bittersweet but necessary departures.
"It was one of the most gallant, generous, manly and disinterested Actions of my whole Life," wrote...
Even murderers have families.
We don't know what Mr. Martini would have got up to in Pottersville because it is simply...
"Silent Lucidity" would be such a great song if "Comfortably Numb" didn't already exist and I didn't...
Perhaps Eliza reasoned that a man who speaks redundancies would lack precision elsewhere.
The Massachusetts accent isn't achieved simply by dropping an R.
I would like to make the righteous protests of my future beautiful ones.
"Now I'm that guy with the dog that attacks people," I would have said, weeping bitterly, from...
It's missionaries, I think. I always talk to missionaries because they can at least put me down...
"This isn't fun for me, either," I said. "But let's get through it."
If your significant other loves "The Godfather," hold onto that person like she's Khartoum's head.
This year's Christmas season lasted from roughly August 30 to Super Bowl Sunday.
Don't be afraid of the inevitable.
Why Weed, Whites, And Wine are integral to long-distance relationships
Be like Isidorus of Seville and cut it out.
Simple tips to help you beat the odds—and the will of God—to live to 47.
A half century ago today, the other bands on the Beatles' Dodger Stadium bill were just as...
Ninth-grade Latin comes in handy yet again.
How I learned to stop worrying and seek a Stella to rap to.
There is no exit from Donald Trump's boneheadery.
His kids were on that beach, too, in 2016
Great shipwrecks of the 20th century:
1. The U.S.S. Indianapolis
2. The Edmund Fitzgerald
3. Watership Down/The Ark of the...
What have I ever done to make you treat me so disrespectfully?
Everyone calls me Doc, but I prefer Mister.
"It's gonna be the best Fourth of July we ever had."
Also, "Life On Mars?" was originally titled "Life in France?"
Poor crabbyhanded Chrissie Watkins: We pour out our Narragansett to you.
Did Alex Kintner really die on June 29? Is his watch really over?
Maybe I should just learn to type.
I feed from the pathetic zombie computer like it's organ harvest time in "The Matrix."
Sometimes the next thing that happens just isn't that interesting to everyone else, Scout.
(Alf murdered cats and wasn't good with electronics.)
"(This trash) will be a balanced meal for a special kind of goat that eats only garbage...
It dudn't mean I won't come back and stay beside you.
January is a good time for resolutions as well as encounters with the dead.
In 2016, just stop picking at it.
I have determined that my dog is a Posby.
46 is the least-popular 2-digit multiple of 23, but I'm making it look good.
I am of a generation of men who spent their childhoods thinking Gordon Lightfoot’s “Wreck of the...
Whether deep under the sea or in the boardroom, today's Enlightened Coelacanth teaches (chosen pronoun) how to...
By the time John was my age, he was dead.
How to make relationship decisions.
“I really learned a lot. REALLY LEARNED A LOT.”
Do mermaids each peaches? Or just salmon?
We’re up in the balcony of the Lowell High School Auditorium, Brad Moore and I, and we’re...
I’d been telling my children for a week that, by St. Patrick’s Day, they’d be getting Shamrock...
Many denominations determine the beginning of the Christmas season as the day when Costco starts selling fake...
When I first heard Hozier’s “Take Me To Church” I thought: “Why didn’t you release this instead...
I bumped my head. I think it’s an east-west thing.
“It’s Not A Re-Boo,” Author Says
Frampton Chelsea Barrett, 1996-2014
We’re not really a Bible-believing family, so when my daughter asked me what Christmas was like in...
I’d like to think that, right now, in some lower rent place than where I’m currently living,
Advances in medical technology and attention to Quality of Life considerations like exercise, diet, and stress reduction...
There are times I want to pick up the phone and call my late father.
A Streetcar Named Extinction.
Amity Island, like Brigadoon or King Arthur’s Avalon, is a place out of time that is powered...
A lot of things happened on both Tinian and Amity Islands on June 29. Let us help...
“One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.” ? A.A....
In this article I use the name of a popular social media outlet as a stand-in for...
Cows are watching from the ceiling.
I have many items on my parenting agenda. I take the mission seriously. But I’m always careful...
A man said to the Internet “Lentils: Soak them?”
I’m truly sorry it went wrong, says “Black Thumb,” but it’s not like you didn’t see it...
My daughter learned to speak from hearing this song.
“You’re streets away from where it gets the roughest.”
Two 2014 inductees to the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame appear on this beautiful song, and...
Like you, every time I pop into the beat, I get Fresh.
“I’ve never done good things. I’ve never done bad things. I never did anything out of the...
Myself, I only love most minutes of the day, but I’m working on a monopoly.
What better way to start the year than “Mr. Blue Sky”?
“Deliver me from Reasons Why.”
“They can’t possibly be American, that can’t possibly be a man, this song can’t possibly be 40...
A cold-weather power trio fronted by its bassist, Boston’s Morphine was nevertheless never called the American Rush.
Jeans, motorbikes, and your pretty face. We have everything we need.
It’s important to be aware of our surroundings and not look like a jackass.
Every writer can get into bad habits, but just remember what your best English teachers (mine were...
Before she died (and several times after), Mother Theresa of Calcutta sat down with me to offer...
I am distrustful of inexpensive things, because it has been constantly reinforced throughout my life that there...
Both The Nosferatu of Carpathia and Mark Twain liked boats and aphorisms.
In the wake of a fast food workers’ strike demanding a $15-an-hour wage, one of the best...
When Langston Hughes wrote “I loved my friend/He went away from me/There’s nothing more to say/The poem...
I would not have listened much beyond “There are two wolves inside you.”
Next year I am splitting the Nobel Prize with this guy I saw walking by my building...
Oppressors are denying your right to party, censoring your fun, and even removing several hours of the...
One of the biggest hoaxes around is that the French language exists, and that there are places...
“In whalers all wonders soon wane.”—Moby Dick It’s been more than a year since I began reading...