why I can't stop drinking

This blog used to be called "Why I Can't Stop Smoking." Well, I did stop smoking. Now I need to stop drinking. The only thing is, every day there seems to be a reason why I can't just yet. It worked before, so—here goes! Today's reason

12.31.2005

rebirth

There came an auspicious dream last night. I had been given the care of a new baby, like a new year. Infancy as potent potential. Why I can...

12.30.2005

tell mama

"You are a flawed human being." "So are you. That's an oxymoron." "Oh yeah. Whatever." OK, readers: What d...

12.29.2005

a mountaineer's marriage

The wedding was in the shadow of Mont Blanc, and the bride wore white fur. A friend from the National Opera of Wales entertained at the dinn...

12.28.2005

now they tell me

Dear Taxpayer, You owe us something over three thousand dollars from 2003. Your friends, The IRS Why I can't stop: Audits

12.27.2005

all christmased out

OK, I've had Christmas with the exes, Christmas with the lovers, Christmas with the family, Christmas with the Yankees. Why I can't ...

12.24.2005

creche dummies

12.23.2005

cold outside

12.20.2005

aweigh for the holidays

Why I can't stop: The boats are still running, if not the subways.

12.19.2005

the caesarian

Why I can't stop: They shopped, they bought, they opened.

12.18.2005

is it me?

Why I can't stop: Getting is just as cursed as giving.

12.17.2005

winter solstice

I hadn't planned on celebrating Christmas this year. For starters, I have not accepted Jesus into my life nor do I believe in a deity of...

12.16.2005

peoplemovers

Partial strike? What the heck is that? The parking regulations will be suspended in the event of a strike. But what about in the event of a ...

12.15.2005

frankly speaking

The Fourth Floor Web Guy played trumpet in high school. Then he bagged it until he was better than 60. It took him a year or so to get his l...

12.14.2005

wolfen's corner

Where she used to live. Where she lives now. Why I can't stop: I live in the first place.

12.13.2005

this is 55

photograph by Donna Ferrato / "Ironbound" December 2005 Why I can't stop: I totally forgot my hairbrush

12.12.2005

growing pains

This is my niece. She is four. She is wearing my daughter's dress. Once my daughter was four, wearing this dress, and I was thirty-five...

12.10.2005

alternate side of the street parking

12.09.2005

rocket in my pocket

Note to readers: A reminder that this is not a PG site. The other site is PG. Please try to keep it straight. On that site. Not this one. ...

12.08.2005

so goth

"And Behold," a short short by the Drummer, was shot on the occasion of his trip to collect a Victorian child's coffin he boug...

12.07.2005

a lot of damn moxie

Moxie has a problem. Until about a month ago, Moxie and family were living happily in a kind of premarital bliss. And then He told Her that ...

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Claudia: The sister of the President of the Garden Club, a former journalist (People, Life) and now vacation rental property manager on an island once known as Claudia's Island, Claudia has honed her bedmaking skills and seldom travels without a truckload of substandard chairs.

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