drmstream[writing]

A very serene and peace­ful pair of street per­form­ers. Their kiss is delight­ful and disciplined.

And then, this.…

The 4th grade book is Toliver’s Secret and Ryan is work­ing his way through it, with a com­bi­na­tion of long and short response home­works every evening.  It’s the story of a 10-year old girl in Rev­o­lu­tion­ary New York who is asked by her grand­fa­ther to carry a mes­sage to couri­ers for George Wash­ing­ton. On evening […]

I woke up in bed, it was the mid­dle of the night.We were still involved in a great big fight­She said, I’ll give you five min­utes to get out of hereI said, I’ll give you five min­utes to change your mind.She said, Don’t hold your breath, it won’t hap­pen this time.Did you see the way […]

Watch her pres­ence closely. It’s all sur­face cute, this woman Sara Palin, who’s cur­rently cam­paign­ing for vice pres­i­dent. Her pos­ture is that she’s right off Main St. Amer­ica. But the aver­age per­son walk­ing down Main St. dif­fers from her on two impor­tant ways. They have much less ambi­tion and much more humil­ity. The aver­age person, […]

No irony. Glee. And energy. Nor­mal, inside a his­tory of non-conformity.

This is about com­mit­ment. Irony. Con­sis­tency. We went to school together a long time ago. He had a short stint as a sex god, a long stint as a writer, I think. There’s perspective here.

I’ve just loaded a blog­ging app on the iphone; it com­ple­ments the face­book app, which gives easy and flex­i­ble access to your face­book page. Pretty facile and quick…great way to upload pho­tos and give a quick look at your cur­rent moment. Some­thing of the essence of what face­book does. This app gives you sim­i­lar porta­bil­ity for […]

A sec­tor of the world piv­oted today, made a quick turn and in the midst of seem­ing stressed, but orderly, cracked with such a resound­ing snap that it cre­ated a moment of pause, and then a rapid panic. The reac­tion to panic, to sud­den fear, is uni­ver­sal: adren­a­line rushes through your sys­tem, the act of reacting […]