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 […]
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, me and Mike were at […]
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. However, actually getting a great shot […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
In your obituary, it said that we would talk about music and traveling, and while there were other topics too (like you constantly and quite hilariously backing your way into the fantasy football playoffs with a 6-7 record), we did indeed share in a deep love of music and a […]
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 […]
