Recently, this happened. It was pretty exciting. In my not so brief interim of not writing blog posts, I’ve taken up really watching soccer. Watching a lot of soccer. Finding myself undoubtedly wrapped up in the world that is sports fanaticism and soccer obsession and being okay with it. It’s probably something I’ll have a [...]
One Week’s Time: We’ll be in NYC. It has been about nine months since I’ve seen Magen, even if it doesn’t seem like it. An entire lifetime encapsulated in that time. So much has changed since then and nearly as much has stayed the same. I’ve read some, written a little more, grew out my [...]
The Miami Book Fair is like, my rock concert. Instead of getting smashed in the face with someone’s foot, I tend to sit around eating crepes. In both instances, I collect autographs. The author autograph is a weird thing, especially for me, as a writer. I like authors. I like to tell them I find [...]
When Magen was here, one of the places I took her to was the zoo, because, she claims she is only ever happy at the zoo. I passed through Zoo Miami just before their (epic) rename last year (when it was still Miami Metro Zoo) and visited with the animals and Diego, but, [...]
How do you keep up with the hours once someone is gone? It is something I’ve struggled with forever. My entire life has been punctuated with types of loss: the grieving kind, the out of state kind, the too far gone to call up and talk again kind. The kind I am living [...]
