Terrible Maladies Telling Me Beautiful Things

Wednesday is books. Or writing. This week's little story is a bit like last Wednesday's - the baggage you carry with you and the certain soundtracks it enables/ruins... Happy Reading!

Watching some music videos the other day, old concerts, some we’d seen and others we hadn’t, and it was going well. It was good. Until I put on ol’ Tom Waits. And almost as soon as he crooned I fell out of tune with it all.

I love Tom Waits. But I barely listen to him these days, and now I know why.

There he was, all fraud-boho, all fake-hipster, brave th…