PART I: The Barnacle In All Of Us

On Loss and Loneliness

HAPPY TUESDAY, F-WORDERS!

We meet again! You, and I, here on the internet, at the intersection of SUBSTACK and TUESDAY. What a wild tradition we have established! You are the Tom Hanks to my Meg Ryan! The Carry Grant to my Deborah Kerr! Meet me at the top of the Empire State Building!

I want to thank you all, from the bottom of my little writer’s heart.…