In which I proceed to talk about various things that are boring to most people but are endlessly fascinating to me.

The last three days were not easy. I spent them working at a summer “adventure” camp, sheparding special needs 9th, 10th, and 11th graders to a baseball game, Six Flags, and the beach. Each day grew progressively worse than…

It’s been such a long, long week. It feels like years have gone by. That’s the truth. I feel years older.

All the muscles in my body are tensed. I get these pains, in the arches of my feet, in…

My father, William Alan Barrett, died today, June 15th, 2006, at 12:25 p.m. That’s the time the doctors listed. I don’t know if that’s technically true; he may have died in his front yard, before being…

Thao asked me to write the “copy” for her website. This is what I wrote:

Glastonbury, 1980. A snow-swept street, haunted by the flickering light of a single, solitary street lamp. Through this barren landscape struggles a young man, handsome,…

I was just fascinated this morning when the radio said that, at this exact moment, a space walk is getting underway near the international space station. That means that, while I was making my iced coffee, someone was floating in…

Lord knows, every time I write one of these things I regret it later. But here we go:

You may or may not be familiar with how I became vegetarian recently; the short version of the story is that I…