Arwyn is taking a break from coding up Minecraft machines to play “Extreme Patty Cake” with a friend who’s stopped by. As contender for the smartest and most adorable 10 […]

Twelfth floor of the Kaiser Permanente Hospital in Denver is the infusion room. Large, comfortable floral print chairs recline back against enormous windows that look west, across downtown and out […]

Yeah, you noticed: I haven’t been writing, have I? I’ve been keenly aware of it. Not a conscious decision or anything – just hasn’t happened. Kind of like when you’re […]

Ah, the unpredictable companions of air travel. The harried mother of the toddler two rows back, who appears to communicate her constant need for attention in ear-piercing screeches (the toddler, […]

It’s Celtic Night at Passim’s, downstairs in the basement on a back street off Harvard Square. I’m nursing my mint tea in a corner while the dozen odd fiddles, mandolins […]

Sorry – too much in medias res, not enough ab ovo. But I’m an impressionist, you know that – I have to start in the moment. Filling in the details […]

 So, we’re around the breakfast table this morning and Michelle announces “Hey – it’s Free Comic Book Day today!” What? “Free Comic Book Day. You go to any comic book […]

Forgive me, but I’m going to gloat and strut. I have, by dint of – okay, dumb luck – demonstrated momentary prowess in one of the great Manly Arts of […]

I’m done roadtripping for a while, so I recommend that travel-thirsty folks take a sideways step and spend some time visiting Zach’s blog. You remember Zach from the South Pole, […]

The woman sitting next to me in Row 14 smells like old tobacco smoke. It feels like the smell of casinos, the smell of endless rows of unsmiling, disheveled folk […]