Tag: compassion

  Me, on Vicodin (inspired by Nick Flynn) I hate Vicodin. Ten years ago, at…

Big Edie: Can I tell you something?
Me: Can I stop you? Seriously, is there anyway to stop you?

Big Edie: I feel sorry for the men in your life. You take the nice ones and twist their minds, and you take the crazy ones and push them right over the edge.

Big Edie, Lyle Lovett, Bruce Springsteen and the battle between Valium and Ativan

what’s the sound of two edies talking? Scene: Big Edie’s 91-year-old beau’s birthday dinner. With…

what’s the sound of two edies talking? Scene: The park near her house, getting some…

what’s the sound of two edies talking?   Me: Ma, I just think it’s time to…

I don’t want to think it is, but it is. it’s us. on the inside,…

Ma: You’re hair looks good, did you do something?

I’m getting used to seeing her on the north corner of 84th Street and 37th…

To this day, you point a camera in her direction and my mother’s shoulders go…

what’s the sound of two edies talking? If a boy wants you to do something,…

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My mother was born on Friday the 13th, except it was a Thursday. Don’t bother…

Tommy died of old age, and that’s the way it’s supposed to be. We’re supposed…

Service will change your life. Maybe not, but it changes mine. Every time. This week…

It’s been over a month since I made the commitment, inspired by Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal,…

I used to say I was looking for a cowboy who knew when to ride…

This is how easy it is to spit into the karma pool every day. Report…

Find something you love, a service you can do that you really love. It’ll change…

It would help if I knew where I was going. I don’t. I only know…

Someday’s I’m a pancake, but as long as I flip before I burn, it’s all…

July is my month. I celebrate both a birthday & an anniversary of what I…

I have a Chinese tattoo that loosely translates to “The end of Crisis is the…