Excerpt from Johnny’s Diary November 1973 Dear Diary: It has been more than seven years since I met Manya on that brilliant fall day in New Haven; it seems like yesterday. Oddly, I haven’t made and kept many friends who are women; yet Manya and I have stayed friends over the years. I can’t…
(IN PROGRESS) No memoir of ours can be complete without some mention of this man. Sure enough, another priest, a sorry excuse for a man, unsexed and unloved, except maybe by his mom. The SJ part is a reference to the Society of Jesus, to which he belonged, having been ordained a priest by the…
Dear John, Ave! I finally have the opportunity to reply to your kind, thoughtful, optimistic, and impossibly joyful e-mail. How could you dismiss my mischievous rantings with such gleeful finesse, and completely ignore all the bait I tossed in your path? Good for you, you clever Jesuit. I was pleased that you thought my letter…
Dear Sir: As I begin this letter, I realize that you may not remember me, in which case this whole thing will be very funny, and totally pointless. That would be fitting, wouldn’t it? In any event, I recently stumbled into the Saint Ignatius High School website. I haven’t had any contact with SI since…
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