Dad Revisited

I’d like to take a moment to respond to your idea that it is appropriate for us to require women to carry their children to term regardless of their desires or the circumstances of conception. First of all, I am the result of an ‘unplanned’ pregnancy, so I speak from experience when it comes to [...]

When I was a kid, I didn’t have to deal with death. As the child of a young mother, my grandparents were younger than most. The first time I suffered the loss of someone close to me, it wasn’t a family member but the death of a friend’s dad when I was 19. I didn’t [...]

A friend of a friend is a film critic, and recently asked me to write a review of Waiting For “Superman.” I guess his review was being used on another site and he couldn’t cross-post. I don’t know much about the news business, but it was great fun. It’s posted on his blog What Would Toto [...]

I haven’t worn my wedding ring in a very long time. I had perfectly valid reasons to stop wearing it. I was playing a lot of piano for a long time, and it got it the way. I was also gaining weight. A lot of weight. that made it tight on my hand. That was [...]

It’s been over a year since I posted here, so I thought it was about time to come back. It’s been an extraordinary year, with so much going on that it’s been nearly impossible to find time to write about it. When last we spoke (14 months ago): My Mother-In-Law was sick. My Father and [...]