Published by admin on January 7, 2019

Fillings

  My brother feels—then fills—their cheeks. Their foreheads. Their lips. Their earlobes. Almost everything is available for filling.   He does not fill boobs; that’s a differently trained filler.   But it seems as if there’s a filling for almost everything these days— especially time.   Time, it seems, must be filled. Otherwise, you go…

Continue Reading »

Published by admin on September 2, 2016

The King of Christiania

  It’s rare to meet such a man. He sits quietly outside his small studio as people walk past. His life’s work, oil paintings, are strewn about the floor and hung up, both beside him and inside his studio. They do the talking for him. One painting immediately grabs me. It’s a picture of a sunset over some…

Continue Reading »