Looks and feelings.
I’ve been working on a couple design projects these past few months. Sometimes I complain (in my head) when I’m designing something. The truth is – if I’m the one doing it, it’s probably not getting the attention it needs at any given moment. But then in those other moments, when I’m lost in the...
You’re too weird.
Watching this season’s Niece episode of Louie on Sunday made me think something I don’t think about much as an adult. That strange little girl was me at 13. I was more happy-go-lucky and social, but I was weird. I went weird at 11. I left for Summer camp that year a normal kid and...
It’s easy: it’s hard.
I haven’t always had it easy. Who has? I take that back. I actually have ALWAYS had it easy. Easier than almost everyone ever. I’ve been spared nearly all imaginable traumas, I have marketable talents, my parents are alive, people enjoy my company, I’m deeply in love with a beautiful wife and I have healthy...
I ate 9/10/11.
I’ve been on edge all day. It felt familiar – perking up at every siren… shit did they hit us again?? What WOULD be the best evacuation route? And where would we go? North, I guess. Every day after 9/11 – for at least a full year – I’d wonder, “will it be today??” Shit....
Dumb and dirty Brooklyn.
I become increasingly germophobic, daily. It surprises me. Maybe it’s just a phase coinciding with the small children I need to protect. I mean, I wash my hands all day long, but it’s usually because there’s baby feces on them. But I realized yesterday I didn’t want to pet the cat (we have a foster...
Beautifulessness.
I don’t know. There are many things that Jo and I never had to talk about, to be on the same page. Especially with parenting, I know we are so lucky to share the same thinking about so many things. Here’s one: neither of us would ever tell our little girls that ANYTHING or ANYONE...
I am pretending to be a Science Fiction writer.
I’m simultaneously working on two stories set in the future. One way way ahead and the other really close. Is that a bad idea? Two totally different worlds, with absolutely different tones and formats and stories to tell. This is true: the one in the distant future takes place in Brooklyn and the one in...
