Jun 19, 2022On being an “ok” dad (and being ok with it)I am an ok dad. Not amazing. Not terrible. And I am (learning to be) ok with it. Before I go any further, let me note that I didn’t write this so that I could get a bunch of people telling me things like “You’re a great Dad!” or “Don’t…4 min read4 min read
Feb 27, 2022RESOLVED: Parents should be banned from sports sidelines“Foul!” she yelled. “Travel!” she urged. “Just call it!!!” she implored. Over and over, throughout the game, the woman rode the refs — insisting that her team was not being treated fairly. Was it an NBA game? Or a college game? Or even a high school game? Nope! It was…5 min read5 min read
Feb 19, 2022On 46I turn 46 tomorrow. It’s not a monument birthday — more like a way station birthday on the way to 50 (gasp!)and, hopefully, well beyond. No one — or at least no one I know — has some big party to celebrate their 46th. …4 min read4 min read
Jul 5, 2021How the pandemic turned me into a ‘Wave’ personI have always hated the Wave. Even as a kid, when I would go to baseball games — which amounted to a game or so a season — I’d look disdainfully down on the masses of people standing up and throwing their hands skyward in unison. Robots. Lemmings. Sheep. Cries…4 min read4 min read
Jun 21, 2021Why Father’s Day feels different this yearThis isn’t my first Father’s Day. (My boys are 12 and almost 9.) It’s not my first Father’s Day without my own Dad. (He died May 8, 2020.) It’s not my first Father’s day in my 30s, 40s or 50s. (I’m 45.) On its face, this Father’s Day isn’t terribly…5 min read5 min read
Apr 6, 2021Me, and the Vaccine or A Hypochondriac gets the shotI am a hypochondriac. It’s probably not the first thing you would realize upon meeting me — that would likely be that I have amazingly hip glasses (Thanks Warby Parker!) or that I am taller than you thought (6'3"!) …Covid 194 min readCovid 194 min read
Feb 20, 2021On being 45I turn 45 years old today. That feels like an age that, when I was a kid, felt impossibly old. An age that my Dad and his friends were — where you complained about your back, your boss and the weather. I never dreamed that one day 45 would be…4 min read4 min read
Dec 18, 2020My Favorite Music of 2020One of the great side benefits of my day job is that I get to listen to music for a large chunk of every day. …Music3 min readMusic3 min read
Jul 3, 2020Anxiety Never Takes a VacationScrolling through my Instagram feed, I am struck by 2 things: Everyone appears to be on vacation most of the time. Everyone on said vacation is having the BEST time. Now, I know that Instagram isn’t real life and that a picture — particularly a carefully structured/edited/constructed one — doesn’t…3 min read3 min read
Jun 20, 2020On Father’s Day — and Baseball CardsWhen my dad died suddenly on May 8, my first thought wasn’t “sports trading cards.” It wasn’t my second or third thought either. In fact, I didn’t even think of the massive card collection my Dad and I had gathered over my pre and early teen years — 1988 to…5 min read5 min read
