This is the personal site of Derek Powazek. It's okay if you don't get it.
When I was young, I knew two things for sure about my dad. The first was that he was weird.…
My Grandfather Ben, Dad’s dad, survived the horrors of the Holocaust, as well as the endless heat and mini-malls of…
Scott Bekun is writing a book for O’Reilly Media, due out in October, called Confessions of a Public Speaker. He’s…
I was working for a tech company that will go unnamed a few years ago, and I had a bad day. A really bad day. So that night, I went out to a favorite restaurant with a couple of friends and got a bottle of wine.
A snowmobile is basically the biggest, meanest chainsaw you’ve ever seen, with two skis bolted to the front and a…
Regina Powazek is my father’s mother. She was born in Dobre, Poland, in 1919. When she was 20, the nazis…
One of the many things I love about my dear wife is her patronage of the arts. After too many…
Photo by Heather 1. Heather’s traveling for work, which means that I’m on Early Morning Walk duty. The dogs are…
The thing that gives me pause about getting a tattoo is all the awful things I would have gotten tattoos…
A short personal story by yours truly. This is the first entry in Fray’s new 90-Second Stories group. What’s your…