I put lights on my slender fake plastic tree last night.
This was Greg’s job, stringing the lights, and not only was he good at it, he actually enjoyed the process. Whereas I did, do, and always will huff and pout when a third of the strands of 100 white lights won’t light when plugged...
November 24th, 2022 | Storied Don't End | Read More
What are the things that you care about most when you have children? You probably want them to be happy, healthy, and safe. It is one of the greatest responsibilities of a parent to raise their child in a way that sets them up to be successful later in life. The question is, how do you do that?There...
October 19th, 2022 | Parenting Blog | Read More
When I was their age, I too lived in the bucolic suburbs of Philadelphia but dreamed of so much more. To be specific, I dreamed of living in Manhattan, in the Village, wandering around nightly, seeing plays in theaters and bands in concert halls across the whole of New York City. To be honest, I...
September 22nd, 2022 | Parenting Blog | Read More
Borussia Dortmund weren’t playing in Madrid on this night
It took almost 40 years of my life before I ever knew that this annoyed you. It’s funny to think about the things we don’t know about the people closest to us, those with whom we share blood and for a time, a roof.
You,...
September 22nd, 2022 | Storied Don't End | Read More
When people think of stunning landscape photography, one of the first images that comes to mind is either a sunrise or sunset. On the photographer’s end of things, this is a common scene to snap, as it is always a majestic one to capture.
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However, actually getting...
September 16th, 2022 | Nature Photography | Read More
The most heartbreaking scene in Greta Gerwig’s coming of age masterpiece Lady Bird isn’t when lead actress Siorsam Roinan dramatically exits her mother’s car thus breaking her arm, but rather when she meekly exits the changing room of a nondescript warehouse style Sacramento clothing...
September 13th, 2022 | Parenting Blog | Read More
It’s the stroke of midnight. It’s the 17th of January. I’ve just turned 46.
I’m sitting at gate B27 of the Nassau, Bahamas airport with my wife, having just come off an 11 hour flight from Ushuaia, Argentia after an 11 day cruise to and of Antarctica. My wife and I cleared...
September 12th, 2022 | Travel | Read More
this walking home without her, with her in that bed on the 7th floor with tubes and wires flowing into and out of her arms, her legs.
I stopped at the market to find something for only one person, for dinner, for me, for tonight, another night alone at home cooking for one.
she had something...
September 9th, 2022 | Parenting Blog | Read More
