To call the past 18 months “rough” would be a bit of an understatement. But then again, so many have had it so worse. I try not to complain, at least not publicly, because I’m fully aware that despite the hardships I’ve endured, I remain one of the more fortunate […]
London, Birmingham, Manchester, Amsterdam, Copenhagen. New York, Boston, Miami, Jersey City, L.A. The places I visit often in the U.K. and in Europe, and places I have lived in the States. No matter where I am going, Laundryheap is like having my own personal Uber driver, but instead of dropping […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 store and says to her mom, […]
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 […]
Ideally, I wouldn’t have given my speech, his eulogy, from an Amsterdam Airport hotel lobby, its library to be specific, which was just enough out of earshot of the check-in desk’s music bed that the 200+ guests gathered in the backyard could hear my words, tears, snot, and sadness through […]
I think I’m becoming a sneakerhead. I say this not because I own a lot of sneakers (I have two identical pairs of two kinds of red Adidas sneakers that I bought at Dick’s Sporting Goods), but rather, because I find myself lusting after sneakers and shoes like, all the […]
