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Of late I had my Dahon folding bike serviced. It is a sweet little thing, perfect for bicycling about this geriatric park I live in. I bike with my yellow Giro helmet. For more than two years the bike languished in my garage but now that I have lost 19 pounds in Weight Watchers it…

Often I go to blog and the damn essay vanishes, often because I don’t save it or whatever Gates has perversely devised. The last few days I have not felt the urge to write, for whatever reasons. I wrote a short piece which you can read in Pages called “The…

At Harry’s Bar & American Grill, Papa said, an epiphany comes late to each man and best of all in a clean, well-lighted place and best before dawn before the heat of day is best gone and the shadows stretch long and far into the night, la noche misterioso. “Hombre,…

All is well. The biopsy was benign. I need to see the doctor next year for another scope. I am being watched, I suppose. Otto Rank, a disciple of Freud, and a kind of genius — bedmate of Anais Nin — tells a story of his youth. Planning to shoot…