Life after door kicking.

Tag: personal essay

  • What Do You Call Someone Who’s Been a Lot of People?

    When I was a kid, almost nobody called me by my first name.It wasn’t personal—it was practical. Common name. Too many of us in every class. So the name always came with a qualifier. Mike G. Blonde Mike. White Mike. The name alone wasn’t enough to point to a person.As a teenager, the names changed.…

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  • A ledger I Can Never Make Black: Poker Life In Fast Forward

    Some of my earliest memories are playing cards with my great uncle Ernie at my grandparents’ house. The table was my grandma’s old glass-top wicker dining table. No chips. Just hand after hand and a mental ledger that I’ll never make black. We played five-card draw, seven-card stud, and sometimes a strange seven-card variation where…

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