Over on Cooper and Kid’s Catch E-Zine today I discuss my torrid and teary-eyed love affair with NBC’s Parenthood. Sure, it took listening to Jim Higley chat with the show’s executive producer/creator/writer/show-runner Jason Katims during the Dad 2.0 Summit a couple of weekends ago, but I am hand and hand […]
When people get old, dear children, they may begin to accidentally omit key pieces of relevant data from their cherished anecdotes or they might embellish the fragments still somehow lodged into the crumbling passageways of their feeble minds. Or both, such as in this short story of the early days […]
Thanks to Skype for letting me play the role of a lifetime. I’d like to thank my parents, my team of agents, my butler, my cleaning lady, my management company, my tabby cat, and all the little people who helped me get to where I am today…[queue the ‘get his fat ass off the stage’ orchestral music]
They are equidistant to the end of the beginning and the beginning of the end. It’s nowhere and somewhere and everywhere in a single syllable, a crayon scribble, a high five, a punch to the gut, a sideways smile, a stubbed toe, an isolated frame from a camera struggling to […]
I was the over-sized cargo shorts in the back row, on the aisle. I was the Fidel Castro shirt-jacket, pressed up tightly against the wall, eyes closed, mouthing every word. I apologize for playing so much air bass guitar, and so flamboyantly. I couldn’t help myself. I was the shaggy […]
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We were a few towns over, driving empty streets towards a dinner we’d soon let slip our minds. Maybe the place was shaped like an airplane, propped up like a roadside museum piece weathered inside and out. A Smithsonian reject, doomed to live out its string in a suburban nowhere. […]
I push back from the driveway early tomorrow, in the chalkboard landscape of morning while absorbing the cold sucker punch of a winter bully, alone with a tangerine orange carry-on and a groggy quarter smile, a couple of hours before they’ll wake and start a new day. Hugs, books, laughs, […]
