One of the best books I have read in the last year is The Genius in All of Us by David Shenk, which came out yesterday. I have had the good fortune of knowing David for several years, and I was privileged to read an early draft of the book. The book’s core message — [...]
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The Wisdom of David Shenk
Posted in Uncategorized on March 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Prestalgia, Theory of
Posted in Uncategorized on March 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This morning has been long on what I call “prestalgia” — pre-emptive nostalgia for the present. Moments when you suddenly appreciate that you are in the sweet spot of your own life, and you get a glimpse of the rose tinted haze through which you will see the present moment in years to come.
When I [...]
Last Weekend in Alta: the sweetness of Utah powder
Posted in Uncategorized on February 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Last weekend I took a spectacular four day ski trip to Snowbird/Alta, Utah, with five dastardly partners in crime: Greg Dillon, Leif Ueland, Jay Haynes, Mark Harris and Michael Hovey. On Saturday, I went heli-skiing for the first time with Mark in the Wasatch mountains — it was a beautiful experience, no doubt made all [...]
Overlooking Transgressions, Santa Delivers Bat Cave
Posted in Declan, Grey, parenting, personal on December 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Santa proved magnanimous this Christmas — he ignored a long list of transgressions by Declan and Grey in the last several weeks and delivered a small mountain of toys, including the much anticipated Bat-Cave-with-working-drawbridge-and-retractable-crane. Though Alisa and I succeeded in keeping trademarked action heroes out of our house for most of Declan’s first four years [...]
Space Shuttle Underwear Touches Down
Posted in Declan, parenting, personal on December 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday one package of Space Shuttle underwear arrived from Gap Kids. Declan picked them out online, and ever day since Alisa ordered them last week, he has been asking when they would arrive. Declan is in many ways a boy’s boy — he gets misty eyed over garbage trucks, but has never given a flying [...]
Holiday Card Subtext — prettier and harder to read
Posted in Uncategorized on December 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Kids Don’t Like Mushrooms”
Posted in Uncategorized on December 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
August 24, 2008
Dear Declan –
This morning in the middle of brunch at the Whitney (Museum of Art, Sarah Beth’s downstairs, highly recommended), you pronounced, “Kids don’t like mushrooms.” You said it patiently, over-enunciating, slowly shaking your head, as if you were talking with your three year old son.
This is something you have starting doing lately [...]
A Big New Book Out from My Not-So-Little Sister
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged amanda little sister family on October 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
POWER TRIP combines fearless, sometimes amusing Michael-Moore-style investigation with level-headed, deeply researched analysis of the history and future of energy.
The Silence of Unit 3099
Posted in home life, resolutions on August 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
On Thursday I learned that the contents of unit 3099 of American Self Storage on Clinton Street in Brooklyn — including a file cabinet stuffed with papers and computer disks containing everything I wrote between about 1983 and 2003 – was sold to the highest bidder in an auction. Also in the unit: all of [...]
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