New Writings and Musings are on the News/Blog

OPINION

From Starbucks to synagogue, where you go says a lot about you (6/20/06)
(From the Tennessean)

Wondering What's Right? Consider What Earl Would Do (2/10/06)
(From the Tennessean)

REVIEW

Coffee shops double as office space for telecommuters (11/15/06)
(From the Brentwood Journal/Tennessean)

MEMOIR / PERSONAL ESSAY

The Italian Stallion Would Like To be Your Friend (also in .pdf form) (January 2008) NEW!
Originally written for a Vanity Fair essay contest on what reality means today.

This I Believe (10.9.06)
Joe's contribution to NPR's This I Believe essay project, accessible through the database on their site at ThisIBelieve.org.

On Being a Queen Fan: The Days before the Day the Music Changed the World
(The release of Live Aid on DVD sparks a recollection)

Eggplant Anyone? Thoughts on Meeting My Idol
(from the Winter 2004 Issue of The Square Table)

Why I Still Love the Post Office (8/02)

Return to New York Radio (8/02)

FICTION

William Green Takes His Antibiotic (Summer 2006)
(A short story in The Square Table Online Literary Magazine)

MISC

Ti tirerò su (Lift You Up) translated from English