Yosemite
The first thing Steve said when he saw me with the camera was “Okay, here’s the challenge: take a picture here – anywhere – of something that hasn’t been photographed […]
Wandering Greenwich Village
Kind of surprised; I would have thought that this brief roadtrip – out to NY for a day of meetings and back the next morning – would have done it. […]
Adult Conversation
There are magic moments in the lives of one’s children when – every so often – they linger after dinner is over. Instead of clearing their plate and bolting unexcused […]
Quake Fairy!
I was going to write again about settling in to my new routine, except that the past 48 hours haven’t been very routine. Yesterday morning, I had no idea I’d […]
And now for something completely different…
Peace and quiet. Really. Our endless summer reluctantly petering out as the rains finally came. Amazing how late it’s stayed warm – played havoc with the garden, I can tell […]
Unexpected
The framing of our lives can change so quickly. Sometimes you know it’s coming, like when you’re flying into West Africa. One moment you’re at the door of your comfy, […]
The Count
[Transcribed from my notebook, scribbled out in the dark as it happened] The scene is surreal. Two electric Coleman lanterns dimly illuminate the pair of plankwood benches pushed together in […]
Election Day
Didn’t get to sleep stupidly late last night, but didn’t get that early bedtime I was hoping for, either. The urgent “Don’t go to sleep until you’ve retrieved the important […]
As ready as we can be
[Again, a reminder: these posts are all one week old, and I’m putting them up in sequence, roughly corresponding to when they were written, to give a feel for my […]
About last night…
[Again, a reminder: these posts are all one week old, and I’m putting them up in sequence, roughly corresponding to when they were written, to give a feel for my […]
David Pablo Cohn 