Side Stream: A Journal

writing

  • Ways to Enter

    I’ve always liked doors. They suggest to me something big — some possibility of change; becoming some other self. I used to believe in portals.…

  • The Clarity of Cal

    He just sent me a text: “A working boy is a happy boy,” with a pic of his dog perched on a tree stump amid…

  • Sometimes I Want to Scream

    (poem I should’ve written in my 20s with a title like I’m 14) Sometimes I want to scream at the way good sex is interrupted…

  • Ten Years

    We recently celebrated the ten year anniversary of our meeting. Let me tell you about Nolan. He’s always listening closely to people and doing little…