the Nixionary

It was dark and the Ninth Ward smelled like mold. I wanted to leave and get some pizza while talking to a friend who works for the Hunger Foundation. We grappled, hemmed, hawed, and never came to a conclusion to this question: do we ever do anything truly selfless?
I think I inched closer [...]

In Where Angels Fear to Tread, E.M. Forster wrote, “Every little trifle, for some reason, does seem incalculably important today and when you say of a thing that ‘nothing hangs on it’ it sounds like blasphemy. There’s never any knowing which of our actions, which of our idlenesses won’t have things on it forever.”
I’m [...]

My name is in the paper- my name is in the paper! (To the tune of nanny-nanny-boo-boo). (What is nanny nanny boo boo??)
I’ve had my eye on him for years: Jayson NIX , #1 in the Colorado Rockies 2001 draft, is poised, at long last, to take the second base position of Asian [...]

Here’s an American routine:
I always watch A Charlie Brown Christmas this time of year. Mostly because the music is really good and the dancing is AWESOME. But I’ve always felt a small gnawing sadness knocking around in my heart of hearts. I usually disregard it, but this time, I realized, this [...]

Routine: the beast that has taken over my awake hours like an overnight beard, for warmth and predictability.
I find myself recently wishing that I lived in Rome again. Italians have mastered the art of routine without losing the savory parts of the otherwise mundane. My favorite things while I lived in Rome [...]