Wife, the magic dragon.
For the record, I really actually believe magic is real. Supernatural forces exist in some forms, for sure. I don’t know if there are aliens or ghosts or psychic things, but I know there’s more to it all than what I perceive with my eyes and can manipulate in my physical world. How do I...
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...
Three Thug Mice in the house.
We came back from vacation to mice this Summer. For about a month, they terrorized us with their tiny poop. I won’t say they didn’t break my will – too negative… but they won many battles in at the beginning of the war. The images below were captured by the new motion-sensor security cameras. The...
