Suprise Me

Once the shutdown happened, a friend phoned me asking when I thought we'd be released from it. "June," I replied without hesitation. I so wanted to be wrong, but the data guided me. Read More

      First day       My mom looked down into the box camera. I smiled from the first step of the bus. I wore a green wool sweater. I tilted my head down a little. And I wonder what kind of boy I’d been if I’d have had my chin up and… Read More

I learned the most from my years of volunteering at a well-run school under the leadership of the man who became my mentor, Warren Cherry. Read More

Occasionally I would open a letter from a camp friend to find it didn't have news, just a request to be part of a chain. Read More

Last November, my brother copied me on an email which shared the results of a 23andMe DNA analysis (since we have the same parents, we share the same DNA; yes, I know, we are not identical twins, so we do not have exactly the same DNA, but would have similar threads, so the results are… Read More

The Puppy Farm I’ve written before about my wonderful childhood puppy  (See Fluffy, or How I Got My Dog and Fluffy and the Alligator Shoes)  but sadly there is more to tell. I’m sure today’s child rearing gurus would advise you to tell your kids the truth no matter how painful,  but I suspect my folks… Read More

The demise of the family dinner is definitely a loss. Read More

My tried and true approach to all problems with technology: Turn it off and turn it back on. Nine times out of ten, the problem is mysteriously fixed. Read More

As a musician, actor, writer, and part-time carpenter, I had grown tired of planning how I was going to buy my next pair of shoes, so I unpacked my diploma and went looking for a job. I had three criteria — the job had to (1) involve writing, editing, and publishing; (2) take place in… Read More

Doing original theater is very different from dredging up the old chestnuts. Sometimes there’s nothing you can do but laugh. Read More