A large portion of your twenties is spent accepting that you’re not as invincible as you thought you were when you were 19. Part of that comes with learning street smarts, and another part comes with learning how ... Read More »
It was about 5 o’clock on a Tuesday evening when a tourist came into the bar for happy hour and ordered a gin and tonic. I poured him the drink, squeezed in some lime and set it down ... Read More »
It’s like clockwork. We do it to ourselves almost every year. We pack up our lives into cardboard boxes, disrupt the stability we’ve worked so hard to achieve and throw it all away like it’s the key to ... Read More »
The Dalai Lama was not quite the man I thought he would be. The thing is, I didn’t really expect him to be a man at all. I had hyped it up in my head so much that ... Read More »
I work at a bar in the French Quarter that is open 24 hours on weekends. Sometimes I work mornings, sometimes I work nights, and sometimes I work at times that I don’t really know what to call ... Read More »
“We’re all marginalized, but we're alive. We have blood. We have our imagination. And we're fucking here." That’s what Patti Smith yelled before she belted out Gloria and left us all to dry in awe, euphoria and immortal ... Read More »
I somehow frequently find myself in conversations with older folks at local watering holes who like to talk my ear off about how different things were “back then." Any sentence that starts with "When I was your age" ... Read More »
Every now and then, you may find yourself with a new sexual partner who asks you, "are you clean?" You brush it off immediately, almost defensively, by telling them that you are. Yet, you don’t really know the ... Read More »
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