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Gift Guide for the Swedish Lover
With Santa living in the Lapland (the Finnish side), give a gift from Scandinavia is a wonderful way to make Christmas festive! Here are a couple ideas from Sweden or inspired by Sweden. If anyone...
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Christmas with Jack Kerouac
I spotted this festive train outside the National Streetcar Museum when I was in Jack Kerouac’s hometown of Lowell, Mass., earlier this month. Looking for a Kerouac-related Christmas story? Here’s a...
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Merry Christmas! …Or Something Like That
“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.” ~Luke 2:14 From the bottom of my heart, I want to wish you all a merry, merry Christmas! May your holiday be bright, full of...
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How I Spent My Name Day
For my name day, my family took me to Delray Beach, Florida. It’s a cute little oceanside town with lots of restaurants, antique shops, surf shops, and galleries. My favorite part of the trip was...
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New Year’s Eve with Jack Kerouac
“The parties were enormous; there were at least a hundred people at Herb Benjamin’s basement apartment in the west nineties. People overflowed into the cellar compartments near the furnace. Something...
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My Clothes Still Smell Like My Grandma
When I was growing up in Closter, New Jersey, there was beautiful blue fir right outside my balcony window. I can only recall one white Christmas. The snow blanketed the pine needles, turning the...
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Blessing of the Waters
This past year, we’ve seen the power of water when Hurricane Sandy hit, devastating homes, businesses, and even lives. And yet water remains critical to our existence: About 57% of our body weight is...
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Blogiversary: Greeks Beat Kerouac in 2012
January 1 marked the anniversary of my blog! Thank you all for your support and encouragement of my writing and blogging. It means so much to me that you take the time to read and comment on my blog...
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Modern Love
When I was still just a teenager, I fell for John Keats. He was a Romantic, prone to fits of passion and depression, the highs and lows most teenagers can relate to. He had studied and gotten his...
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Feasting on Flowers to Celebrate the Month of May
Kalo mina! It’s the first day of May–or as we Greeks call it, Protomaia or the Feast of the Flowers. Here in New York it’s been a long, long winter. Every time it started to warm up, it would start...
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Friday Links: …Punctuation!
In honor of it being National Punctuation Day earlier this week (the 24th, to be exact), here are some punctuation-related links::: Mary Norris’ delightful piece on National Punctuation Day in The New...
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Kalo Mina! October 2013!
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald Kalo mina! Happy October 1st! The first day of fall was September 22, but the weather today feels more like late...
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Warby Parker Glasses for Halloween
via Warby Parker Happy Halloween! Though I tortured my sleepover guests with classic horror films when i was a preteen, I’ve never been real big into the scary stuff of Halloween. I do, however, think...
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Gift Guide: 5 Unique Gifts for the Mad Ones
Happy Black Friday?! The writers associated with the Beat Generation generally avoided vapid commercialism, but if you have a friend, family member, or colleague who is into Beat literature — or if...
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Clip: 12 Christmas Trees That Will Blow Your Mind
Burnside published my art post “12 Christmas Trees That Will Blow Your Mind.” …Because nothing says Christmas like cats? * * * Burning Furiously Beautiful: The True Story of Jack Kerouac’s “On the...
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A Perfect Morning to Jump Into the River
image by Jim Maggas via Wikipedia After a weekend of trudging through dirty city snow, I was surprised—and thankful!—this morning to discover the temperatures had risen enough to melt away the large...
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Friday Links: Clips of the Week
Burnside published my top 10 art picks of 2013 Largehearted boy mentioned my book picks of 2013 Burnside re-published my essay “Does God Laugh at Our Resolutions?” along with several other archival...
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Keep Dreaming: Martin Luther King Jr., Amiri Baraka, Tamera Mowry, and Kim...
photograph of Martin Luther King, Jr., taken by Dick DeMarsico via Wikipedia Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. We need to keep on dreaming and keep on working for a better future. I was saddened and...
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100 Facts on William S. Burroughs for His 100th Birthday
The title say it all, and I’ve got a lot of ground to cover so let’s just get on with it! Burroughs was born on February 5, 1914, which would make him 100 years old today! But he passed away on August...
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Two Love Stories Inspired by Jack Kerouac
“Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk- real straight talk about souls,...
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