As always, I think about Mark today. No wait, that's a lie. For the past few years November 8th has snuck up on me. A vague feeling of unease, a feeling that I was forgetting something, maybe someone's birthday? Maybe a test at school, a project that was due? I spend...
I've been going a little nuts with dinner at my house. I've never been that interested in cooking. I mean, I can cook. I'm even a good cook. I just don't care that much. When I first began cooking for my family, it went great. I made baby food, the kids ate the baby...
This week brought news of the impending death of Tab. If you have never enjoyed a Tab it is hard to explain the cold, bubbly taste, at once both sweet and acrid. Imagine a Coke, with a tablespoon of vinegar thrown in. Take a pink packet of Sweet & Low, mix it with...
It took me a long time to start making my bed. As a child, it was not something required in my house. It was something saved for company, summer camp, and my one year of boarding school. In college, making my "bed," which was really a mattress on the floor, was...
If you are in your 50s in the age of Facebook you can probably sort the names of people you went to high school with into four categories. There are your friends, the ones you still talk to and know, the ones who hold all your secrets. A few years ago, one of my best...
When he's bored with his own phone, my 14-year-old son likes to pick up my phone and go through the photos. My phone is 5 years old, so over a third of his life is stored in it. "You take a lot of random pictures," he said to me the other day. He's right, I do. I know...