Moving Scenes

[Published 26 Feb 2019 in the Broad Street Review and reprinted here by permission.] Scene 1 The only way I was leaving this house was feet-first. Jackie didn’t like that kind of talk, but I’d resolved that I was finished with moving: I wanted to get through life...

Let me entertain you

[First published in Broad Street Review 23 Oct 2018, and reprinted here by permission.]  I wasn’t prepared for the reaction—my reaction, that is. This was the second time our German men’s choir would sing the national anthem at the Phillies. I wrote about it two years...

Living Dangerously

[Published 10 July 2018 in the Broad Street Review and reprinted here with permission.] Abington Hospital’s emergency entrance is across Old York Road from Señor Salsa, which is not a crack at Señor Salsa. I note it only because this is the first time I’ve looked...