I couldn't believe it. "10,000 Kroners! That's outrageous!"   I was deep in the Troms region of Norway on the Nordost Road. I had been for a while. At the moment, I was trying to cross the ...  [+]

The moments of lucidity were rarer and rarer, but when they came, he regaled me with tales of swallowed teeth, basement brawls, and AIDS tests administered at midnight in ramshackle midtown health ...  [+]

Your baby is due in two weeks. Naturally, I'm over the moon about this, but I'm also feeling a bit sentimental . . . hence this letter.   So here I am at the kitchen table, thinking about you and ...  [+]