My friend Angie mused a little during our Wednesday morning bootcamp. "You know," she said between impressive plyo jacks. "If you squint from a distance, the snowy bushes can look like flowering dogwood trees." This is what it's come to here in the Midwest, where spring takes its ever-lovin' time. We delude ourselves. One year, [...]
Dear Snow, We’re through. I apologize for the bluntness of that sentence, but I need to make you understand. I can’t do this anymore. Our relationship hasn't been good for a while now and, you know what? It isn’t me. It’s you. You drop in uninvited, leave your stuff everywhere, and, even when I obviously [...]
A highlight of our recent trip to Los Angeles was the morning we spent working crew for a Pure & Weary production. With Vince operating the boom and me monitoring the camera, we spent a pleasant, though somewhat exhausting, morning watching them work. We still don't know what a "best boy" or "key grip" is, [...]
It should be pretty clear to all of us by now that the groundhogs weren't faking it (though who could blame them) when they saw their shadows this year and headed back to their dens to sleep off six more weeks of winter. In fact, for those of us sticking frozen fingers in the wind [...]
The end came suddenly and neither one of us was ready. One minute, we were ice skating under the stars, and the next she was gone. Could I have saved her? It’s hard to say. Frankly, it’s still a little difficult to talk about. My hands shake a little when I recall the exact [...]
