Author Archives: fishamaphone

The car broke down. The car broke down a mile away from home.  I figured it made more sense to push it than call a tow truck.  Can’t afford a tow truck. The car broke down a mile away from … Continue reading →

It’s been nine years since Steven passed away.  That’s a lot of time.  I think I’ve had all the thoughts I’m ever going to have about him, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to stop thinking about him, that he’s … Continue reading →

Facebook is full of New Years posts, full of all different kinds of perspectives. This year was filled with a lot of good and a lot of bad for everyone, though relative proportions may vary from person to person. And … Continue reading →

In the last couple years I’ve been introduced to and slowly become more fluent in Tumblr, and one of the more interesting terms I’ve picked up from there is “trigger warning.”  A trigger is an idea, image, or topic that … Continue reading →

Michael Eisner was CEO of the Walt Disney Company from 1984 to 2005.  In that time, he was able to put his fingerprint on dozens of projects, and single-handedly changed the company’s destiny.  Eisner’s tenure saw a massive expansion of … Continue reading →

So I’ve had this old classic stuck in my head for the last few days.  It’s a nice little earworm.  Fun melody, ironically easy-to-remember lyrics.  But with me, earworms often develop into stranger creatures.  I start playing with them, reading … Continue reading →

I was in a weird mood yesterday.  This is to the tune of Billy Joel’s “Just the Way You Are.”  Don’t look at me like that, I don’t know how it happened.  It just did. Don’t feel shameful when you’re … Continue reading →

About a year ago or so, it occurred to me that I could, not unreasonably, chart my emotional state by looking at the frequency with which I updated this blog.  More updates meant I felt good, less updates meant I … Continue reading →

Yesterday was my first class of the first seminar for the Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Bar Ilan University. I’ve been meaning to make it “public” that I was accepted into the program a while ago, I … Continue reading →