Yearly Archives: 2008

Being Rocco

[At Golf’s U.S. Open, June 12-15, 2008, at Torrey Pines Gold Course in San Diego California, 45 year-old Rocco Mediate was played to a tie by struggling golf phenomenon Tiger Woods, who was recovering from knee surgery. On June 16, … Continue reading

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list

Some friends of ours call the breakfast table recitation of ills an organ recital. As we age there are other lists with generic names: who’s dead who’s dying who’s sick who’s taking these medications who’s taking those who’s going down … Continue reading

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interior

He blinks his eyes as if to change the channel nothing changes he is still surrounded by rubble buildings tossed as if by those malicious kids next door lying broken like their slaughtered toy soldiers The end of a transmission … Continue reading

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