An icon of the American theatre, Edward Albee, died this week. Scholars & Rogues honors him and notes the small ways that the influence of great artists can affect our lives for […]
Me, Albee and the Butterfly Effect: Scholars & Rogues Honors
Cerebellar ataxia and me: trying to live while the brain is dying
Spinocerebellar ataxia sucks the joy out of another day… As I have mentioned before, I have a degenerative brain condition. It’s called spinocerebellar ataxia, and is essentially an atrophying of the portion of […]
My Memoir: Dodgeball
It was the greatest moment of my life. I attended a high school in rural North Carolina that was probably typical of rural high schools in every way, up to and including […]
My Memoir: ice cream
When I was a kid my grandparents and I would sit on the couch and watch television in the evenings. We had all kinds of favorites. Beverly Hillbillies, Andy Griffith, All in the Family, Hee-Haw, Happy […]
My memoir: Sam vs Peaches
I’m the Forrest Gump of apples. My favorite desserts often involve apples. Apple pie, apple cobbler, apple crisp, apple tarts, baked apples, apple dumplings, stewed apples, apple danish, apple butter, apple kugel, […]
Je suis Mourinho
Is José Mourinho an all-time great, or merely the greatest of a generation? Imagine the following scenario. After last year’s Super Bowl win the New England Patriots enter the 2015-16 season as […]
The Tuesday before Thanksgiving: a moment of symmetry in a ragged life
It’s been a strange couple of years. In August 2013 I moved to Seattle to take a new job. I was leaving the city I love, leaving my friends and my life […]
Photography may have saved my life
One of the symptoms of depression is an addiction to rumination. The vicious cycle of negative thinking that strips us of energy and desire. It is precisely our obsession with working out […]
The twisting, capricious nature of “blessings”
Yesterday was … unsettling. Any time you’re meeting with your physician and the words “brain tumor” come out of her mouth, it’s going to make you sit up a little straighter, even […]
Dear Woody Paige: thank you for saving my life
Hi Woody. I’ve been posting the poems from my latest book to Ello lately – one per day – and this morning’s entry was “Old Ethan’s Quantum Diary.” It’s an especially difficult […]
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