• Garbage

    February 13, 2013

    The garbage truck came today. Like it does every Tuesday. A black man in a white truck pulled in front of our house, reached out with a mechanical claw, grabbed
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  • Value

    February 3, 2013

    You’re born with one desire – love. And you’ve got nothing to give to the world. Not yet, anyway. As a child you’re just ‘the future.’ What that means in
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  • America the Beautiful

    January 29, 2013

    Riding into work today I passed a red billboard with yellow type that said, “I start my day at $1.” It was for McDonald’s dollar menu. I thought about how
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  • A Round With John Boehner

    January 23, 2013

    The other night, I had a dream. I was driving to work when my car died right near the Charlotte Country Club. I’d passed the exclusive club hundreds of times,
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  • Unrefined: A Night at the Opera

    January 20, 2013

    It’s funny how you discover things about yourself when you’re not looking. Like last week, for example, when I found out that I’m not an opera guy. My wife wanted
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  • The Real Fiscal Cliff

    January 10, 2013

    I recently did our family budget for 2013. We’re middle class. We have a very good life and want for nothing. We’ve got braces, we take vacations, we drive good
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  • The Last Day

    December 31, 2012

    I let my dogs lick my face. I have three real friends. I like show tunes. I loathe insincerity and falseness. I used to be a raging drunk filled with suicidal
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  • The Wish

    December 27, 2012

    A few weeks ago as we were driving through downtown Charlotte at night, my daughter Cozette (9) said, “I wish I could go to the top of that building at
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  • The Year in Tweets 2012

    December 23, 2012

    One thing I’ve always loved about Twitter is that it forces brevity. Not unlike writing advertising. Be quick or be dead, and all that. Last December I published a post
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