One of the most surprising things about middle age is my love for summer concerts on the green.
For those of you who didn’t grow up in a Norman Rockwell painting, concerts on the green are free family-friendly music shows put on by suburban towns once a week in the summer (weather permitting). Read More
Society needs to revisit its entire relationship with sleep to address the systemic bias favoring early birds. Read More
Libraries provide a fellowship with humanity that transcends time and taste.
Kim Kardashian shares shelf space with Aristotle; David Spade sits (alphabetically) next to Steven Spielberg. Read More
When our COVID quarantine began, I was cautious about having my wife Jenny cut my hair.
While I eventually let my guard down and trusted her, she immediately dismissed my offer to cut her hair. I get it. Read More
How good is Connecticut at social distancing?
Our most popular sports team has been in North Carolina since 1997. Read More
It only took me two weeks of Zoom yoga to wonder if I have the soul of an old pine tree.
Towards the end of that class I lay on my side focusing on my breath. I looked out my patio door up into the tree’s gently swaying branches. Each needle and branch moved gracefully with the evening breeze while the trunk itself stood stoic, strong, and calm.
As I bore witness to stillness’ majesty, I thought, “that should be me. I should be more like a large pine tree.” Read More
The good parts of these protests have made me very hopeful for the sort of world my daughter might know and experience when she’s my age.
It’s like going to a vow renewal ceremony for a couple that’s always fighting and saying, “wow, they might actually love each other,” even though you clearly see them still bickering under their breaths and hear their kids in the parking lot throwing firecrackers at each other. Read More
Somewhere around my fifteenth time (before noon) reading the children’s book Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See?, I had a realization.
I happily repeat the same book to my 15-month-old daughter because just as we are physically “what we eat,” we are culturally “what we consume.” Read More
It took me a long time to find the courage to embrace my own vulnerability instead of going after easy targets.
Once I did, I immediately saw the value of not simply entertaining other people but connecting with them. Read More
Though I don’t actually know any of my neighbors, I see enough on my walks to learn a little about their lives and let my imagination fill in the rest. Read More