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Category Archives: Personal
Luke, Luke, Luke, I’m Coming
"I want you to look." "But I can’t look. It’s got cancer. My mom died of cancer. I can’t look. I can’t f— my mom." "Luke, Luke, Luke. Look, look, look. "Luke, Luke, Luke, I’m coming." "Luke, Luke, Luke, I’m … Continue reading
I Am John Cheever
I don’t have his body of work, but I have much of his character. I’m reading Blake Bailey’s biography. On page 620, I learn that at Yaddo at age 68, Cheever kept making fun of this surgeon-writer Richard Selzer who … Continue reading
Betrayals: The Unpredictability of Human Relations by Gabriella Turnaturi
More. Here are some of my favorite bits: * What are we talking about when we speak of betrayal? Can we imagine a sociological definition of betrayal that would include all of its various modes, aspects, and forms? To betray … Continue reading
Without a Doubt, I Am The Greatest Writer Of My Generation
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My New Job
I’ve got a job for a few weeks driving a friend around for $100 a day. I leave the house at 5:30 every morning and get home around 6 pm. This photo tells the story. I blog during the day … Continue reading
Fair & Balanced
Jaded Topaz writes to Hirhurim: "Nat, I havent looked at your "awareness" link, but Luke Ford is the only blogger that I can think of, that I would trust to write an objective/ fair and perceptive write up of a … Continue reading
Tears For Fears
Kundalini Yoga class. I arrive five minutes early. I put down my stuff, take up my cross, roll out my mat, sit next to the wall, lie down on my back while simultaneously sending my legs straight up in the … Continue reading
The First Night
"Would you marry a girl who only had a Conservative conversion [to Judaism]?" my friend asked over lunch. "Or if she was only half-Jewish. Only her dad was Jewish." "I wouldn’t rule it out," I said. "When you find a … Continue reading
‘Make Your Enemy Your Teacher’
I got a call from a girl today. "I was really mad at you for what you’d written about me," she said, "and then I was in this office and I saw a sign, ‘Make your enemy your teacher.’ And … Continue reading
Short Cuts
* About three years ago, I made the mistake of telling this nine-year-old girl that I smoke cigars (she had been propagandized at school that this was evil). I was kidding. I do not smoke anything. Ever since, however, she … Continue reading