My wedding
On October 10, 2008, the Governor of California married Calvin Phelps and me. That transaction was legal back then, though within several weeks…
Read MoreOn October 10, 2008, the Governor of California married Calvin Phelps and me. That transaction was legal back then, though within several weeks…
Read MoreChicago, February 1986. I was selling men’s shoes at Marshall Field’s Water Tower Place store on Michigan Avenue. Back then the Trib included…
Read MoreMama died five Aprils ago. I still wonder a little if she arranged her demise so close to Mother’s Day just to spite…
Read MoreAboard the TGV to Paris I could exhale a little. After the morning’s frenzy and the schlepping of my five bags onto the…
Read MoreThe time came for me to go home. After 85 nights in the so-called Yellow Apartment that I had found on Roomorama I…
Read MoreThere is a French institution called the bar tabac. It exists in the smallest villages, such as Fitou, and the largest cities, such…
Read MoreIt was the spring of 1996 and I was selling men’s shoes at Saks Fifth Avenue in Chicago. The suit department was next…
Read MoreWhen I was a little boy in Houston a cat and a dog lived with us. Lickie the cat was jet black and…
Read MoreThe first time I traveled overseas was the summer of 1973. I was eleven, and my grandmother took my mother and me to…
Read MoreSome years ago Calvin and I spent a week 1000 kilometers from here in Brittany, in a charming medieval town called Dinan. During…
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