Dang.
“Some things are under your control. And some things are not under your control.” -Epictetus A central tenet of Stoic philosophy is to focus your attention on those things that are […]
Category Archives: roadtrip
North Into Autumn
It was early in the summer of 1996 when Peter first tried to convince us to move to California. He was heading up the team I was a part of […]
Go Ahead – Patronize Me…
When I tell friends I write fiction, they ask why I haven’t published any of it. Well, when I started, I spent about a year working myself up to the […]
This Must Be the Place
I make it all the way to the threshold before freaking out. Past the cornfields, the classic New England barns and farm stands hawking apples and fresh sweet corn. It’s […]
Not Quite Like in the Movies
I have so few memories of those pivotal, ostensibly memorable rites of passage: losing my first tooth, getting my drivers license, heading off to college. Movies always show the family […]
Validation
Devon’s out of town, and downstairs, the rowdiest party ever to grace Chez Cohn is just getting underway. No, don’t worry – Devon was full well aware of the party […]
A Learning Experience
There’s something lovely and decadent about lying in bed with the morning sun streaming through the windows, feeling everything rock slowly in the rhythm of the waves. Granted, the sensation […]
Simply Messing About in Boats
The first day of Ephemerisle, inevitably, is a disaster. Upwards of 30 houseboats, mostly driven by untrained landlubbers like myself, trying to converge and dock in a windy section of […]
The Land of the Weird and the Home of the Brave
I should clarify, right up front, that (to some, limited, easily rationalize extent) these are my peeps. These are the geeks, the nerds, the folks who didn’t quite fit in […]
The Right Kind of Regret
One of the gifts of age is to know when you’re going to regret something the next day. Another gift is the recognition that there are different forms of regret, […]
David Pablo Cohn 