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I’m not sure boarding school is totally responsible for my lack of understanding of women. I think there’s some natural ability at work here. I have…
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Many people have written love letters to their cars. My favorite is E.B. White’s “Farewell, My Lovely!,” about his old Model T Ford, published in the…
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I don’t speak Yiddish fluently. Or even semi-fluently. But having lived in New York City for thirty-five years, I acquired a basic store of Yiddish…
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One afternoon, some years ago, I went to my ex-wife’s office in Midtown New York City. I don’t remember the reason. We hadn’t been divorced that long…
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February 2023

I want to thank all of you for subscribing and/or reading my newsletter. I try my best to say something that at the very least is entertaining. And that…
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Did you happen to see the recent article in the New York Times about how Roald Dahl’s books are being altered? And not by him, since he died in 1990…
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Thirty years ago, I was at the MacDowell Colony for an artist residency. It was the summer of 1993. It was my first time as a MacDowell Fellow, as…
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My girlfriend Gaywynn and I got a dog. As with many people who get a dog, we really didn’t know what we were getting ourselves into. It’s a puppy, a…
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January 2023

Part 1 was vegetarians. I wrote, with some glee, about vegetarians who come for dinner and don’t forewarn you about their uncompromising diet, so that…
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We were inside our little house in rural Louisiana. It was after dark. My girlfriend got a text from our next door neighbor saying we had two owls in…
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There was a period in my life years ago when I had nightmares. When I woke up—usually because of the bad dream—I was in a state of terror. That word…
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Happy New Year, everyone.
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