I should have submitted one of my photos en route from the recent trip from Boston to Vegas or one leg of my Southeast Asia trip from Malaysia to Cambodia? I don’t know if I can get over the crampedness of the window seat, but this almost makes you want to. March 28, 2010 Personal [...]
An appropriate piece of writing for this coming week (finally spring break!), despite the cool rainy weather predicted for this weekend. Sometimes, you absolutely do need to Spring from School. Heading to Vegas for the week with S. (see, I put it out there, you. Not buried in the more innocuous Heading to the Grand [...]
Here are some good ones from a recent Esquire magazine (yeah, I’m still reading that– how do you pass up a $5 magazine subscription?? You just can’t, people..) — My four-year-old daughter has a pretend hair-and-nail salon, and I was doing her hair and makeup. I said, “Hello ma’am. What’s your name? And what do [...]
Lucky to be at the beginning of a February break week, that New England school-break tradition that my sister down in Philadelphia always ribs me about. Her own school students soldiering bravely through the winter without a similar vacation week. How in the world do you get to 180 school days??, she insists. Hey, I’ll [...]
How good to wake up on Saturday to a brisk winter morning–or rather shielded from the reach of it–through the marvels of home insulation and the welcome warming sun coming through the windows. The luxury of being able to start slow– breakfast, percolated coffee and a book. Finally making my way through the end of [...]
A good short essay piece from the November Esquire. Why not? —- The Words of Men What we say matters, and our language has never been better By Chris Jones She never loved you anyway. Giants live there. It’s the best that you did. Those are three beautiful sentences I heard this week. They were [...]
How nice to re-read favorite stories with the niece and nephew–especially ones with frogs and toads. Brilliant. Alone Toad went to Frog’s house. He found a note on the door. The note said, “Dear Toad, I am not at home. I went out. I want to be alone.” “Alone?” said Toad. “Frog has me for [...]
[Read part 9 here] The Last of the Metrozoids by Adam Gopnik Part X By July, the doctors had passed him right out of even the compassionate trials and were into the world of guesses and radiation. “It’s a Hail Mary,” he said of a new radiation therapy that they were proposing. “But, who knows, [...]
[Read part 8 here] The Last of the Metrozoids by Adam Gopnik Part IX If this story were the made-for-television movie that every story about early death threatens to become, we would have arranged one fiery game between the Giant Metrozoids and another team, a bigger, faster, slightly evil team, and the Metrozoids would win [...]
Ending Words from Cosmodemonic
Reading through Michael Chabon’s Manhood for Amateurs–a series of nonfiction pieces exploring themes of ‘the pleasures and regrets of a husband, father and son.’ Particularly good closure from the short piece ‘Cosmodemonic.’ We are accustomed to repeating the cliche, and to believing, that “our most precious resource is our children.” But we have plenty of [...]