“Me” Time
This past week, using my 50th birthday as an excuse to reward myself, I’ve been taking a lot of “me” time. Not doing anything fabulous or grand – okay, I […]
Pie, Cake, Crumble and a Root Canal
There’s something vaguely appropriate about getting a root canal on your 50th birthday. I knew it was coming (both the root canal and the birthday) and couldn’t figure out why […]
The Best Bad Breakfast in the World
I think the problem is that I’ve got a lousy imagination. I love telling stories, but I’m absolutely no good at making them up. So the only way I get […]
Denver, September 1979
There are better and worse ways to say goodbye and, given the circumstances, I guess Colleen did the best she could. Still, I do wonder how she tells the story.I […]
Black and White
Skiing yesterday at Heavenly Valley with Devon and the kids, I veered off for a couple of runs in Mott Canyon. Storm had just blown in nine new inches of […]
The Day Sleeper (South Pole retrospective)
[I came across this from my stash of “unpublished South Pole Journal notes” and figured enough time has passed that I can post it safely. Those of you who haven’t […]
Snow Day
[from last week] The storm built slowly. My years in New England taught me that the big ones always do. First, as always, there were the tiny flecks, the ones […]
On Purpose
[some musings on Christmas morning]We’ve all had that conversation: do you think we’re here for a purpose? A few times, when I’ve written something well, really captured lightning in a […]
A Day Like Today
It’s hard to complain on a day like today. Autumn – what little we get here in Palo Alto – but autumn nonetheless, resplendent. The ginkgos a brilliant yellow-green-red that […]
Three A.M.
Does seem to be the canonical time for writers – all those songs that begin with being wide awake at three a.m…. In my case, it’s just that the slide […]
David Pablo Cohn 