If I Had a Hammer

“It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.”—Abraham Maslow Somewhere far upstream in the river of moments that is my Life, in the darkness of an early November evening in Bangor, Maine, as snowflakes the...

The Slingshot Effect

It’s New Year’s Eve. Tomorrow is 1984. Orwell’s year. Alive 26 years, I’ve yet to devise a plan or discover a goal. For tonight, or for the rest of my life. I’ve spent most of the day inside my studio apartment, my box, on the top floor of a five-floor walkup in the...