Archive for July 2021

I’m celebrating an anniversary today: Ten years ago today, I took the stage at the Nuyorican Poet’s Cafe and competed in my first Moth StorySLAM, telling a story about pole vaulting in high school. It was my first time telling a story on any stage ever. My first step into storytelling. I almost didn’t tell…

Charlie saw a bug on the window of the car and said, “That’s the grossest thing I’ve ever seen!” “Grossest ever?” I asked. “Seriously?” “Yes,” he said. “Seriously. What’s the grossest thing you’ve ever seen?” I have a great many contenders for grossest thing ever. I mentioned none of them to Charlie. I once saw…

They have not stopped. After telling my now-former students about my response to Elysha’s initial declaration of love  – “I’m flattered” – my students spent the rest of the year, including our graduation ceremony, throwing those two terrible words back in my face. Such a wonderful, terrible bunch of children. Last week, I received an…

I was exiting Winding Trails, the lake club where my family and I spend our summers. I had a meeting with an important client in less than an hour and needed to get home quickly in order to shower and be prepared. I had spent a little too much time on the beach with Elysha.…

I was driving Clara and Charlie to camp yesterday morning. They were bickering a bit as we pulled out of the driveway, so to shift their attention away from discord, I said, “Hey guy, let’s look for rainbows today on the way to camp!” It was a sunny day. Not a cloud in the sky.…

I don’t like soccer, so when Elysha proposed that we purchase tickets to the US women’s soccer team’s match versus Mexico, I wanted to say, “No, thank you. That sounds awful.” But instead, I said, “If the kids want to go, I’ll go.” Clara immediately said yes. Apparently she loves the US women’s soccer team,…

I was driving down Main Street in the direction of my next Egg McMuffin. I had exited my driveway about ten minutes earlier and was approaching a traffic light when I heard, “Meow.” I nearly drove off the road. After regaining control of my vehicle, I turned. Sitting in Charlie’s booster seat, staring at me,…

My friend, Rob, texted me yesterday, asking if I wanted to try to squeeze in a round of golf before the rain.    I wanted to point out to Rob that it was kind of raining already. A gentle mist was falling, and the ground at the course was sure to be soaked. I was…

I discovered something delightful today. The word “jiffy,” which is normally used to indicate an unspecified short period, as in “I will be back in a jiffy” has also acquired a number of more precise applications as the name of multiple units of measurement. A jiffy is a specified period of time .01 seconds Isn’t…

Every month I report the progress of my yearly goals in order to monitor progress (or the lack thereof) and hold myself accountable.   The following are the result from June 2021. Halfway through the year! PERSONAL FITNESS 1. Don’t die. Definitely alive, unless of course we’re all living in a digital simulation. Which is…