They’re All Grown Up Now
Right now, my son is outside, forging a flagstone walkway from our driveway to our front stoop. It’s 8:45 on [...]
Teen Angels
Admit it: I say “teenagers,” and a part of you recoils in horror. They smell weird. They have zits. They [...]
Hyphen Envy
It’s not as if I were an immigrant and a part of me was Mexican or French or Ghanaian while [...]
Perfect Timing
(A guest blog written for my friend Lauree Ostrofsky at Simply Leap.) I’ve been an English professor for 30 years, [...]
Dave’s Top Ten List: Worst Songs of the ’70s
I woke up yesterday morning haunted by my dream. Not by the dream itself—that was fairly typical (I was about [...]
Richard Samuel Hicks
My father died six and a half years ago. At first, right afterward, he was "around." Hovering, I guess you [...]
If I Save Your Life, Will You Promise Not to Hate Me for Leaving?
Back when I left my marriage and was really missing my children, I would be their “babysitter” once in a [...]
Dave’s Top Ten List: Bike Ride, Breakfast & Museum
Top Ten Observations from My Bike Ride, Breakfast, and Museum Experience This Morning CK and I went for a bike [...]
Unknown Man
When my son Stephen was eight years old and we lived in the Pennsylvania woods, he occasionally donned a makeshift [...]
White Plains
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