Honoring my Father

December 21, 2012

When I heard the muffled sound of the garage door rising I would drop my blocks and my Legos and run for the door, shouting “Daddy!” as I leapt into my father’s arms, taking in the smell of snow and faded cologne. We had a ritual, my father and I, and as he washed up […]

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Blur: There Goes the Son. It’s All Right.

September 22, 2012

“Maybe we shouldn’t have gone to Italy,” said Andy.  I was in a sour mood on our evening Agnes walk, a pile of bills, tuition payments, penalty-laden property taxes and other such signifiers of a certain sort of “reality” vexing me from their wicked scatter on the kitchen island, and just down the way an […]

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Goin’ Fishin’

June 21, 2012

As we near the summer solstice, and I prepare to take a little break from blogging, my mind drifts back to turning twenty in Rome.  I could barely afford a bottle of Asti Spumante, but when the cork flew out past open double shutters of some cheap pension and into the soft inky night of […]

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Commencement Begins Again

June 13, 2012

Morning found me weeping on the floor Oh, how Much I feel as My Nate-Nate rises to walk, and say Yes to the world Andy walks with Helen, then off to greet Tiki Nate sleeps still with friends Death Informs my watery lungs And yet God (or whatever you call Great Source) Reveals Eternal Love […]

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Money Trouble

June 6, 2012

Karl Marx opined that “religion is the opium of the people,” meaning that it helps mollify the masses by feeding them promises of a better experience after death, and thus denudes the oppressed of their zeal for social change. I’ve had friends and clients who have been in trouble with serious drugs, including heroin, which […]

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Insensitive Bullies and Sensitive Victims: Brothers and Sisters in Hurt

May 30, 2012

In striving to be useful ahead of sweepingly insightful, today’s focus is on better understanding bullies and bullying, with particular regard to helping kids who tend to get bullied. In simple terms, kids who have relatively non-sensitive constitutions tend to plow forward into new situations and out into the world with hardy confidence.  If they […]

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Happy Birthday Nate!

May 22, 2012

Eighteen years ago at the precise moment that this post posted, our son, Nate entered our world.  While most of what we could say would probably come out a little corny or sentimental, he literally turned us into parents (and later, he became a brother to Will and made Will a brother) and given that […]

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Brotherly Love

May 16, 2012

We’re crawling together through the deepest darkest jungle, chasing dragons.  Our dragon-chasing tool is humble, yet powerful:  an unfurled paperclip.  Jordan, my younger brother, has seen the dragon in its lair and I have no reason to doubt him, as he’s nearly three years old.  I’m soon off to kindergarten and so it falls to […]

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In the Hands of Women

May 9, 2012

“Thanks for taking me on these boring errands,” Nate said.  We were driving between the tailor and the florist, prepping for prom. “I can’t begin to express how happy I am to be doing this,” I told him. “Did you go to your prom?” he asked me.  “No,” I said, “but I’m really glad you’re […]

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Television Man (take two)

May 2, 2012

“I’m killing you,” she says.  “That doesn’t sound good,” I reply.  “It’s for the best,” assures the producer. It’s Tuesday and I’m sitting in the green room at the television studio where I’ve been half watching a low-speed chase for half an hour.  The helicopter cam continues to observe a host of police cars languidly […]

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