Author Archives: dsamarov

Moving to another town is a time-honored way to give oneself a fresh start. Wipe the slate clean. Get rid of the old patterns. Change the scenery. Be reborn. Sometimes, though, the thing you’re fleeing follows you, no matter how far you run or how hard you hope to be free of it. If theContinue reading “Make All Our Dreams Come True”

As I’m about to board a plane to LA, I get an email I’d been dreading. It puts me in a foul mood throughout Soutwest’s cattle-call. So much that I refuse to give up my first-row aisle seat for a late-arriving paraplegic. I feel like a selfish asshole but am in no condition for anotherContinue reading “Creatures”

I hadn’t made a mixtape for someone in a decade before K came along. Now I make them all the time. To be clear, these are not the canonical cassette variety but recordable CDs. I found a bunch in my desk drawer, biding their time, sure they’d be of use once more. Now there areContinue reading “Mixtapes”