This article was published as one of two stories about Bruce Springsteen’s Super Bowl Ad. The other was written by Mike Morgan. There’s a chapel in KansasStanding on the exact center of the lower forty-eight.It never closes.All are more than welcomeTo come meet here, in the middle.It’s no secret the middle has been a hard […]

This article was just published in Hard Crackers #8 (Summer 2021) with a companion article by Mike Morgan. I once heard that 1 out of  every 12 people in the United States had been born in Brooklyn.  I am one of those.  I am at the terrible disadvantage of writing about Brooklyn after living all […]

Once when I was a kid, my father took me to a Memorial Day Parade in Manhattan.  I had no idea why he decided to do so.  I remember feeling uncomfortable during the parade and wondered if he was trying to tell me something.  He had been in the Navy during the Second World War […]