Last night I had the Navy Dream again. It’s my own version of that anxiety dream everyone experiences when life gets too complicated. In the Navy Dream, somehow I find myself back in the Navy, on a new ship without any friends, uniforms or gear — and most importantly, without any idea of how long [...]
Isn’t It Pretty to Think So?
When I was a flight attendant, the airline’s company store sold t-shirts that said, “Marry Me, Fly Free.” The shirts were funny and humiliating and possibly desperate, but many new flight attendants wore them. The shirts got a lot of attention in hotel bars. Drunk people all over the world take t-shirt advertising seriously. “This [...]
Sing to Me of Gangsters
So, kid, whuddya see? I looked forward to him coming by every night in his big black limo, handing me a fiver for a three-cent Daily News and asking me the same question. And every night I had a different answer. It was like writing poetry, coming up with a different answer for Frank Costello. He [...]
Happy
I am so miserable I am so tired I just sit on the Mississippi River and watch the fish swim by My life is so confused But I don’t wanna die I wanna go to Heaven but I’m scared to fly —O.V. Wright, “Everybody Knows (The River Song)” I was walking down Decatur Street in [...]
Keeping the Aspidistra Soaring
Author’s note: I wrote this short piece in 1998 while my wife and I anxiously awaited a trip overseas that would result in the adoption of a bright-eyed toddler from Romania. Twelve years later, at peace as an often humbled father of a 13-year-old girl, I am not quite as disgruntled a writer but am [...]
Worse for Wear: Chapter 1, Part 3
Editor’s Note: This is the third of three installments from Chapter 1 of the forthcoming serial memoir, Worse for Wear, by Adrian Margaret Brune. To read Chapter 1, Part 1, click here. Chapter 2, Part 2 is here. For additional information on the collaboration between Atticus Books and Ms. Brune, see the Atticus Books press release. “Ok, here’s [...]
Worse for Wear: Chapter 1, Part 2
Editor’s Note: This is the second of three installments from Chapter 1 of the forthcoming serial memoir, Worse for Wear, by Adrian Margaret Brune. To read Chapter 1, Part 1, click here. Chapter 1, Part 3 is here. For additional information on the collaboration between Atticus Books and Ms. Brune, see the Atticus Books press [...]
Worse for Wear: Chapter 1, Part 1
Editor’s Note: This is the first of three installments from Chapter 1 of the forthcoming serialized memoir, Worse for Wear, by Adrian Margaret Brune. To read Chapter 1, Part 2, click here. Chapter 1, Part 3 is here. For additional information on the collaboration with Ms. Brune, see the Atticus Books press release. The bed felt [...]
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