"Write," said Joe.

Trying to get my head around this and that.

Memoir

Movies – 1982

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2,35012.04.14 It has been 2,350 days since I saw a movie with you. I figured out we started our friendship in 1982 in the darkened theatres of Montreal. I worked my way backward to the year by remembering that I was 19, and because I ran away to Greece after my 20th birthday, in February the following year. We became friends over movies. I clearly remember seeing these … [Read more...] about Movies – 1982

27 Hours

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12.03.14 Dear Joe It's been 2,349 days since we last talked. I missed yesterday - day 2,348. my brain was exhausted. It's all too much. 11.22.14…11.23.14…11.24.14…11.25.14…11.26.14…11.27.14…11.28.14…11.29.14…11.30.14...12.01.14...12.02.14...12.03.14   -=-   12.04.14   -=-   12.05.14   -=-   12.06.14   -=-   12.07.14   -=-   12.08.14   -=-   12.09.14   -=-   12.10.14   … [Read more...] about 27 Hours

More

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12.02.14 Joe, you knew that no matter how much I loved you I always knew that you loved me more. You knew that, right. You also must have known that anyone who had any sense of you and of us they also knew that I could never love you as much as you loved me. And I was and am okay with that. Your loving me more was the cocoon that made me un-killable. No matter how many times … [Read more...] about More

The Accidental Bar Owner

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12.01.14 Sometime after you died I became the accidental bar owner. With all the talking that we did and all the time we spent together did we ever talk about what you wanted me to do with the bar when you were gone? 11.22.14…11.23.14…11.24.14…11.25.14…11.26.14…11.27.14…11.28.14…11.29.14…11.30.14...12.01.14   -=-   12.02.14   -=-   12.03.14   -=-   12.04.14   -=-   … [Read more...] about The Accidental Bar Owner

Bad Teacher

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11.30.14 I was not a very good teacher. I wanted to be. I tried to be. Maybe I had a moment or two of being a good teacher, but really, I did not have the temperament to be a teacher in Miami-Dade County. By the time I started understanding the many intricacies of the me as teacher dynamic, it was too late. I was too tired. Too beaten up. Too hurt. I had nearly died too many … [Read more...] about Bad Teacher