“When the flood water comes it ain’t gonna be clear, it’s gonna look like mud.” — The Front Bottoms, Twin Size Mattress I don’t know how it is for others. With me, it comes and goes, but when it comes, it does look like mud. Actually, it looks more like quicksand. Or rather a liquid […]
Len Kuntz
The Thing About Pets
“Gestures are all that I have.” — Enzo, The Art of Racing in the Rain Other than my wife, the person who knows me best is not a person at all. She can breathe, but she can’t speak. She can’t read or write. Can’t run a remote. Can’t drive. Can’t offer advice. Still, she’s one […]
The Thing About Envy
“Few people have the natural strength to honor a friend’s success without envy.” — Aeschylus I wish I could be a lot of things I’m not. One of those is a person who doesn’t envy. After all, envy is one of the Seven Deadly Sins, not to mention it can make you a truly incorrigible […]
The Thing About (My) Drinking
Sometimes it seems like alcohol has always been a part of my life, though really, I didn’t have my first drink until age nine. It was whiskey. Rotgut. Straight out of the bottle. And it was my mother’s idea. In the summers, to make money to buy school clothes or anything else our parents couldn’t […]
The Thing About Wonder
“Hope springs from that which is right in front of us, which surprises us, and seems to work.” —Anne Lamott The thing about wonder, or rather our sense of wonder, is we usually start to lose it right around the time we’re shedding the last of our baby teeth. A few of us don’t, […]
The Thing About Forgiveness
“Everybody has their shit.” -Karen Stefano The thing about forgiveness is, without it, we’d all be screwed. True story. Think about it for a minute, or for or a second, if you can. Think about all those times you desperately needed forgiveness. Or maybe, if you’ve been on the opposite side—the one who has heroically […]
