Eyes Wide Open: Looking at 2019
2019 was an active, hectic, and stressful year. The simmering concerns I had been harboring in recent years about my mother’s living » Read more
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To Hell and Back: Hadestown and a medical maelstrom with Mama (April-June, 2019)
The soundtrack for spring was Hadestown, a folk operatic musical reimagining of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth. Back in December, on a » Read more
2018 Highlights
2018 was a year in which aging, mortality and illness reared their ugly heads, in the family and our circle of friends. » Read more
Spring bustin’ out allover in NYC: April 2018 (Part 1)
Saturday, April 14, 2018 Spring can be particularly glorious in NYC. Probably the harshness of NY winters makes this contrast inevitable. This » Read more
Spring is sprung in NYC: April 2018 (Part 2)
Saturday, April 21, 2018 The second half of our first ever 2-week stay in NYC was devoted to catching up with old » Read more
2017 Highlights
The short version I didn’t really try to set a new record for longest year’s end summary EVER, it was an EXCEPTIONALLY » Read more
Come From Away comes to New York, March 2017
Saturday, March 11, 2016 We were finally on our way to New York for the long-anticipated opening on Broadway of Come From » Read more
Hamilton-mania: New York, May-June 2016
“What’s your name, man?” “Alexander Hamilton, My name is Alexander Hamilton.” The musical story of the driven “10 dollar founding father” was » Read more
I Ran Over My iPad: Part 10
I Ran over My iPad, My Mother Died, Then the Shit Got Real: An illustrated autobiographical tragicomic novella in 10 chapters by » Read more
I Ran Over My iPad: Part 9
I Ran over My iPad, My Mother Died, Then the Shit Got Real: An illustrated autobiographical tragicomic novella in 10 chapters by » Read more