Archive for June 2010

Thought this might be fun. Here’s an updated list of all the jobs that I’ve held in my life, in chronological order. 1. Farm laborer, Blackstone, MA: When I was 12-years old, I began working for Jesse Deacon, an aging farmer in need of some help. Every Saturday, I would spend 4-6 hours loading hay…

My wife can’t throw away stuffed animals, even if she despises the furry, inanimate objects.   Tonight she attempted to throw away a worn-out, bedraggled, hand-me-down stuffed bunny, but try as she might, she couldn’t bring herself to toss it into the trash. “I can’t do it,” she said.  “You could do it for me, but…

In an effort to convince a former student to name her new dog after me, I told her this amusing but true story. About six years ago my DJ partner, Bengi, and I worked a wedding for a couple who we liked very much. Fun-loving people who were easy to please. A few months later…

I spent the afternoon visiting my childhood home in Blackstone, Massachusetts, a house that I lived in from the ages of three to seventeen before my evil step-father stopped paying the mortgage, forgot to tell my mother and eventually left her.  Less than a year later, the bank foreclosed on the house, leaving my mother…