All posts in category Henry’s Jug Of The Last

“About, Briefly, Me”—A small ego blurb

As of February, 2012, I have this to say about myself: Dan Ryan earned BA in Journalism from Lehigh University in 1987, but has only gotten serious about publishing creative work in the last year. In the past, he has at various times been a private investigator, a market research journalist, and a public school [...]

It Is Good To Say Thanks To Nice People Because It Makes Them Feel Nice—A small editorial gratitude

It’s a hell of a thing getting some of your self esteem back after spending the better part of a decade wondering if you had any left. Please understand that most of where that comes from is the fact that I was a full-time American public school substitute teacher from November of 1998 until June [...]

Henry’s Jug Of The Last—A Small Goodbye

(dedicated to Ralph H.) Henry said he was giving it all up for a very good woman, whom he had only met six months ago. He said he had to for her, and that the long nights and cement-nail hangovers were killing him anyway. But it made perfect sense to all of us that he [...]