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I used to have a deck.

I had great plans for my deck, so I had a big one built. Besides the deck I needed to install a sliding door where the windows used to be. Oh, and Mr. Deck Guy, as long as you’re here, do you do...

Last Call for 2022

Edit Timeline of Scene 5 2022 is almost gone. I’m not here to assess it. It walked in, all full of hope, then did its thing: did some good, then did its damage. And now its leaving. It’s a thing we...

A New Family

So, there’s this party tomorrow… Any parent knows the one great truth about being a mom or dad: If your kid is happy, you are happy. And right now, Laura and I are overjoyed.  From...

Fountains of Wayne

My former co-worker and great friend, Wayne Persing, has retired. Wayne and I worked alongside each other at my old job at First Generation for eleven years. When I arrived, Wayne commandeered the...

Twenty years ago

As I remember it, I was driving north on I-287 in New Jersey, going to work, and it was a spectacular day … similar to a couple of the days we had this week … just perfect weather. I was listening to...

My Ned Beatty Brush with greatness

In another life I was a cook at a restaurant in Allentown called Murphy’s—a middling restaurant masquerading as a high-class establishment. (I worked in the kitchen. I saw the shady things that...

David Beedle Questions Himself

It is 5:15AM. Whitehall Pennsylvania is quiet. Snow blankets the ground, as it has for most of the winter. There is no traffic, car or foot. I suppose I might hear the trucks lumbering down MacArthur...