Journal of the Plague Year, Day One Hundred Eighty Three: There’s another way to leave the garden of Eden.

A word, here, about better times. My parents have left the shore and are on their way back to Florida. I am sad to see them go, and not super-pleased that it’s Florida they’re going back to, but my mother’s doctors are there – the competent ones, at any rate – and my sister is […]

Journal of the Plague Year, Day One Hundred Twenty Two: You know what always cheers me up?

It’s Nick’s birthday today, and for his birthday I’m going to share an old story about one of our many (many) (MANY) misadventures playing poker in Atlantic City. I had gone down earlier that day to watch the first Transformers movie in Imax, and Nick met me later at the Borgata. We were playing in […]