Note: This story contains a graphic depiction of a deed that some readers may find upsetting or alarming. The story is an attempt to explain the...
Although the guises may differ, people who study history are no less doomed to repeat it than those who don’t. The reason for this circumstance is...
During my twenties and thirties, it was my goal to have sex with every physical type of woman on the planet. I’d prefer not to hear any stuff...
I wanted to be invisible. Out of nowhere, with, I swear, nothing in my history to predict it, I’d done something people regard as sick and...
John McCain is an exceptional man and I honor him for his many virtues. I will, however, never forgive him for what amounted to a treasonous act...
I could never relate to so many people's problem with Hillary. All politicians are by definition liars and deceitful. Hillary was at least sane,...
To varying degrees everybody lives with a fear of death and, in one manner or another, attempts to deny death’s finality. In the case of Donald...
Blanche Dubois always depended on the kindness of strangers. Me, I’ve always depended on strangers thinking I’m someone else. I’m referring, in...
This time the news was completely delivered in under a minute, but I caught it and it made me rise from my seat. “Yes!” I heard myself say to the...
If I ever see a shrink again it'll have to be under a court order. No, my rancor has nothing to do with what happened with Frieda. Not, of...
A few decades ago I was awakened at seven o’clock one Sunday morning by the persistent droning of my downstairs door buzzer. I was living then in...
Although it’s brought me that much closer to transforming into worm food, I’ve found that turning sixty is not without its compensations. While...
The Author Addresses His Base “Puerile, sex-obsessed…at times a misogynist, at times a bestiality apologizer…Levin, a sexagenarian, sounds like a...
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There were three of them—three guys whose wiring you probably could have smelled in Brooklyn—but, my purpose eluding me, I found myself headed...
I wanted to be invisible. Out of nowhere, with, I swear, nothing in my history to predict it, I'd done something people regard as sick and...
I was, I suppose you could say, in a PREpartum depression. It started when my wife, Connie, decided it was time to have a baby. I was thirty-one...
All right, maybe my book fell a hair or two short of greatness and, for sure, it hadn't sold very well—even my parents, went my standard joke,...
One weathercaster called it a “must-see light and shadow show by the Old Master Himself,” but I can’t say this last solar eclipse was worthy of...
It’s time to take punitive action against an insidious and rapidly proliferating menace to our emotional well being. I’m speaking, of course, of...
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