I’ve realized that, when you start doing things your brain isn’t used to, like levitating desks or speaking French, you’ve got ease into it slowly. Waking this morning after yesterday’s […]

I’ve been grasping at any metaphor that can explain what makes this city so special for Americans. Something that doesn’t make us mere cowboys running amok over a refined civilization […]

I love this moment – like that instant in the darkened theater when the trailers have ended, there’s a hushed paused, and you brace yourself for the immersion in what […]

Describe one event. Just one. Here’s the problem: I keep starting on these posts of interesting weekends I’ve had. I start at the beginning, and by the time I’ve gotten […]

Monday morning, on vacation. Third full day of the family roadtrip, north. Summer with the Cohn family is typically a tangle of week-long day camps for the kids, swimming lessons […]

Devon was under the weather yesterday morning and Andy was still away at a sleepover, so I took a swing at doing the “Dad” thing and hauled Jem out to […]

Walking along 5th Ave – Pittsburgh – this morning, traversing the four or so blocks from the Holiday Inn to Craig Street, triggered a flood of memories. That was no […]

“When the Seattle schools called their fourth ‘snow day’ of the month, I looked online and noticed that only one of my friends with kids had a Facebook status that […]

Patty Larkin’s song “Helen“, paints the picture of an aging matriarch lamenting the changes that have come to her beloved rocky coastal down Maine, 40 miles from the Canadian border. […]

If you’ve ever spent the weekend up in the mountains camping out at one of those 60’s hippy-esque freeform music festivals, it’s pretty easy to describe what Folklife is. Exactly […]