Frankie Frost/IJ archive
Jeff Burkhart“What is it that you do exactly?” asked my nosy neighbor, holding her young child close to one side, and her little yapping dog even closer to the other.
It was not the first time that I have been asked that.
Bartenders keep odd hours. When everybody else is getting home from work, we are often just heading in. In my nightclub days, there were many times I would be arriving home just as people started waking up. I can remember passing...