Journalism

Chasing the Dream

Features

Zimma: MyFriendz, CD Release Party If you listen hard enough you can hear the backbeat coming from a dark basement on a nondescript street in North Attleboro. Local musician Mark Zimmerman pounds away on his drum kit, rehearsing for his next show. Mark, better known to friends and fans as Zimma, will soon release his […]

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A Rare Individual

Newspaper Columns

I’m going to miss my friend Bob. This summer he decided it was time for a big change. He’s moving (probably on the road right now) to Nashville. It’s not like me. I don’t miss people, especially ones I work with. Think about it. If you work a 40 hour week, that’s around 2000 hours […]

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The power of grassroots

Features

Dora is a survivor, one of the lucky few. She was 20 years old and living in Nazi-occupied Paris when her mother, father, and brother were arrested. While returning from work she was warned not to go back to her home in the historic Jewish section of the city. She was saved by a gentile […]

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Need a Ride? Looking for a Vanishing Hitchhiker

Severe Magazine

Keep your foot on the gas. Avoid eye contact. Never slow down. My car swings around a curve as the two lane highway changes from strip malls and car dealership lights to a dark New England road. I’m in search of the Red-Headed Hitchhiker, a ghost who has haunted this stretch of Route 44 for […]

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Bump In The Night

Severe Magazine

They Can’t All Be Flakes, Weirdos, Cranks, Opportunists and Out-And-Out Psychotics. Can They? “I’d tell all my friends but they’d never believe me; they’d think that I’d finally lost it completely.” –Radiohead, “Subterranean Homesick Alien” A huge triangular object appeared, swooping in low. The sky turned into a whirl of flashing red and white lights. […]

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A Family Legend

Newspaper Columns

Here’s a story of a life told in pieces from different years and different times. They are the kind of family legends people use to remember loved ones. Roland Mueller (he’s our hero) is working in his garage in Bellingham. A mechanic by trade, he’s also been a fireman and served in the Navy. Most […]

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Fur Panic Strikes

Severe Magazine

Teen Wolf, Bray Road, Silver Bullets and Werewolf Moms “If you hear him howling around your kitchen door. Better not let him in. Little old lady got mutilated late last night” – Warren Zevon,  Werewolves of London Listen for the creature breathing in the darkness, waiting to rip your lungs out. A howl comes from […]

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Scottish Prayer

Severe Magazine

This is the traditional Scottish Prayer I wrote by when I was writing my “Bump in the Night” column for Severe Magazine. From ghoulies and ghosties And long-leggedy beasties And things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us!

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In The Bowels of the Health Care System

Newspaper Columns

I roamed free for an hour inside the hospital, killing time in the bowels of the health care system. I didn’t do anything illegal but I probably shouldn’t have been poking around in those back halls. Over the years I’ve learned an important lesson. As long as you look like you belong somewhere no one […]

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