What Are You Thankful For? (No, really!)
It’s Thanksgiving here in the States, and so it is time for that most rote and cliché of all...
Read Moreby Barry Lyga | Nov 27, 2025 | Life | 0
It’s Thanksgiving here in the States, and so it is time for that most rote and cliché of all...
Read Moreby Barry Lyga | Nov 21, 2025 | Life | 0
Baltimore’s own Joe Metheny was only convicted of two murders (only…), but claimed to have killed...
Read Moreby Barry Lyga | Aug 5, 2025 | Coolness, Life, Writing, Writing Life | 0
(Above: Portrait of the Artist as a Young(er) Man — me about 20 years ago.) Today, August 5,...
Read Moreby Barry Lyga | Jan 20, 2025 | Life | 0
When I was nine, my parents got divorced. My parents shared custody, but in those days that meant...
Read Moreby Barry Lyga | Oct 29, 2024 | Life | 0
My maternal grandmother — my Bubie — would have turned 100 yesterday. She was the first of my...
Read Moreby Barry Lyga | Jul 30, 2024 | Life | 0
Last night, I sat in on the White Dudes for Harris Zoom call, and let me tell you, it was just...
Read Moreby Barry Lyga | Oct 24, 2023 | Life | 2
My dad passed on October 9.
Read Moreby Barry Lyga | Sep 20, 2022 | Life | 2
Today would have been my paternal grandfather’s 100th birthday. When I wrote about my...
Read Moreby Barry Lyga | Oct 1, 2019 | Life, Writing | 0
Thirteen years ago, I gathered a few dozen friends and families to celebrate the release of my...
Read Moreby Barry Lyga | Feb 1, 2018 | Life | 1
There’s a video I shot literally one minute after my son was born. In it, hands bearing...
Read Moreby Barry Lyga | Nov 1, 2017 | Life, Writing | 1
This month’s fundraiser story is “The Autopsying of Michael Edward Morgan.” ALL PROCEEDS FROM THIS STORY BENEFIT THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION! From Manhattan to Baltimore to Vietnam to Iraq, a coroner...
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