Dear everyone,

The continually-evolving assault on apathy moves to the KGB lit club in New York tonight, January 7, in the middle of a really nasty freeze. My apartment in Philly is cold, I don't want to get out of bed, and lots of other things are scattered in my path.

But ...

Dear everyone,

Today might be the most beautiful day of the year.

Summer's all the sweeter for being almost gone—that cricket sound, the sad reminder that school's starting again. It's starting to get dark earlier. The moon was full the night before last and it was as orange as a pumpkin.

Years back—more ...