Three biggest mistakes that parents make
In speaking with a friend about her son today, she asked: Based upon your teaching, what are the three biggest mistakes that you see parents make. I answered without hesitation:…
The annoying gadget guy
There are three kinds of guys in this world. There is the guy who does not care about or own gadgets. There is the guy who loves gadgets but does…
My life
Carol Goldberg wrote a piece in last week’s Sunday Hartford Courant about upcoming books by Connecticut authors, and UNEXPECTEDLY, MILO was included on her list. I’m honored to have my…
The rest of the story
By request, the rest of the highlights of my lip-syncing career: In 1989, Bengi, Coog, and I headed to Salisbury Beach in northern Massachusetts to create a lip-syncing music video…
Memories I’d like to forget
While playing Sweet Child O’ Mine at last night’s wedding, Bengi and I reminisced about a time when we were seventeen years old. We were both in high school, working…
Dead
Things that I can’t imagine not doing when I’m dead include: Music… the thought that I will never again hear the music of Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Cat…
Names
The Facts of Life was a sitcom about four girls and their scraggly old headmistress, Mrs. Garrett. It was a painfully classic 80’s television programs that proselytized and preached lessons…
Outsourcing my underwear
It’s a problem that most men face. We purchase underwear and socks and then forget about ever purchasing another pair, assuming that our current supply will get us through the…
It’s all about the shoes
In the film The Shawshank Redemption, protagonist Andy Dufresne wears the warden’s shoes during his escape from the prison, walking right by guards and inmates with the shiny, black dress…
The verdict
While I wait for Taryn to finish falling in love with CHICKEN SHACK and possibly negotiate the subject of my next novel, I sit and wait. Since the choice of…
