This was - and remains - such a great story man!! We were lucky to run it!!

If you use the EMS system in America just know that big Medicaid/Medicare cuts will close hundreds of EMS agencies nationwide — agencies already hanging by the most tenuous of threads.

McGuane never misses!

REM knew…

Gotcha — and welcome!! So far, so good over here!

I’m so sorry to hear this — I remember when my son was neutropenic like that from chemo and it was a frightening time. I hope you’re able to stay close and I wish your husband all the best!

I won’t have you disparage Grimace, sir. Hamburglar, though? I never liked that guy.

I just use it as a place to work out random writing/literature thoughts that have no other real outlet. I think William Kennedy used to call that sort of thing “thinking with my fingertips” aka at the keyboard.

I love that you seem to capture something new and intriguing about this building every time. It’s how I feel looking at the Tobin Bridge in Boston — there’s always some new way to see it.

And we must write with a pen—in Mark Twain’s phrase—warmed up in hell. We might have something then, worthy, necessary; a real literature instead of the Botox escapist lit told in the shiny prolix comedic style that has come to define us.” ~ Joy Williams

The. BEST.

Even when you don’t have a horse in the race. Doesn’t matter. Always a great watch!