Category Archives: The Naso Diaries

Lies all the way down: Ventilating Uncle Willie’s Father’s Day funk.

“Hey, dipshit, if you want to lose your house and lose your family, to see your kids a third of the time if you’re lucky, to watch them spin out of control as they learn to pit the two of … Continue reading

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Telling long stories about other people’s nightmares — for Father’s Day.

“Every one of those guys knows that this could be his last Father’s Day at home, his last chance to see his kids before they get sideswiped for life by the family court system, his last chance to make believe … Continue reading

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Doing The Union Shuffle: Black humor is never funny. It’s just funnier than extermination.

“I see it everywhere — this slow, lazy, indifferent lassitude about everything. To be passionate about anything serious in life is uncool, so the cool thing to do is dance The Union Shuffle under other names. And people are actually … Continue reading

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Taster’s Choice, for the richest kind of love-making in your marriage.

“True marriage is a love so big that no one else can even see it — and so big that you and your lover can’t see anything else. But it’s little things accumulating every day that make it so big, … Continue reading

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Putting the independence back in Independence Day: “When you chase a kitten away…”

“When a kitten jumps up into your lap, it’s like a smile from the gods, isn’t it? The kitten can’t speak, but if she could, she would say, ‘This is what you needed most. Now your life is perfect!’ And … Continue reading

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Remembering everyday heroes in a world at war with heroism.

“When a job comes along that only a man can do, the world rediscovers what it loves about men.”A Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Willie story May 26, 2013 “You think it’ll go away someday, but it never does.” The Master Sergeant said … Continue reading

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Willie’s wager: Sun City, a new skein of Willie yarns, is going to make you cry.

Got teens? Among many other things, this book strives to redeem marriage and family for the generation of kids for whom stable families have been too rare.But it’ll be a cleansing cry, I promise. Sun City is the collection of … Continue reading

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Singing the death of my Nasogirl at a Sun City garden party.

Sun City is mid-century-modern suburban elegance as witnessed nowhere else. Where, snide hipsters, do you suppose the always-hipper-than-you Don Draper lives by now? Golf in the morning. The pool in the afternoon. And grilled steaks and chilled cocktails on the … Continue reading

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Love me, hate me, I don’t mind. I can work with anything except indifference.

“The diametrical opposite of love might be hatred, but the absence of any emotion is simply blank indifference — what you feel after all the love, even the affinity, is gone. People can feel a sort of storgic hatred, where … Continue reading

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Dig this shit: “The opposite of anarchy is warfare, and the war is on at Duffeeland Dog Park.”

“But think: Before one man owned the park and everyone valued it. Now everyone owns it and no one values it. Before a group of people who got along perfectly worked together joyously in pursuit of the values they shared … Continue reading

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“When you chase a kitten away, she never comes back to you.”

“But when you chase a kitten away, she comes back half as often, with half as much confidence and half as much enthusiasm. And with a fear she had never even known before. And if you cut her back again, … Continue reading

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Love and loyalty: Why I want for my dog to die in Sun City.

The sun-dappled dogs of Duffeeland…A Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Willie story “Your dog’s dying.” What do you say to that? When you have a wound that won’t heal, there is nothing quite like having someone tear it wide open — expecting you to … Continue reading

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Making men out of boys by breaking all the rules.

Boys will be boys, but sooner or later they come to be men. Being serious about being serious is a very good sign in that transition.M.Angel Herrero / Foter.com / CC BY-NC-SA A Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Willie story “Dog’s not supposed … Continue reading

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The perfect life and beautiful death of a gangly little mermaid.

The little mermaid lives her life her way, regardless of how you or I might fail to live up to ours.A Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Willie story She was the little mermaid, in our world but never of it. Never in all … Continue reading

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