Non-Fiction – Maryland Writer’s Association 2019 Anthology March 1976 Working on the waterfront means learning to deal with tribalism, in all of its forms. Each port has its own unique flair, its own tribes and its own dialect. In Baltimore, the largest tribes are Irish, Polish and African-American, sometimes called Micks, Polacks and Blacks. The […]

Non-Fiction – Eastern Shore Writers Association, Bay to Ocean 2018 A LONG WEEKEND Pain made me see the light. A lot of pain, a little light, but enough. When you’re a thirteen-year-old punk, hanging around with nineteen and twenty-year-old other punks, you don’t realize you’re the go-fer and butt of most jokes. You only know […]

Non-Fiction – The Coastal Point 11/27/15 Yeah, that’s right, transition not tradition. I am from South Boston, unavoidably, indelibly Irish. A few Lace Curtain types but most pig-shit Irish ensconced on their corner pub thrones. A chronic forum for ridiculing the Lace Curtain Irish, claiming disdain but evincing envy. The Lace Curtains’ behaved the same […]