We wandered into a music and poetry slam Saturday night, a couple of trendy hipsters out on the town. Packing some choice quotes from his favorite philosopher, Yogi Berra, on a folded piece of typing paper, Vince immediately made his way to a corner chair. Similarly armed with a blog post print out, I joined [...]
Tag: Life
In honor of the 20th anniversary of my dad’s death
My dad died dramatically Super Bowl weekend exactly 20 years ago. To mark the occasion, I am posting the eulogy I wrote. It's longer than I remembered. I wrote it on a few scraps of borrowed yellow legal paper sitting outside the door of my hotel room in Franklin, Kentucky at 2 a.m. the morning [...]
To market, to market jiggety jog
Most Saturday mornings, you will find Molly and me wandering through the sensory carnival provided by our local Farmer's Market. The routine never varies. We fortify ourselves at our first stop with fresh watermelon lemonade because we want to keep our chatting chops fresh and our palates cleansed. (Also because at least one of us [...]