My son is turning into a writer. And that is a good thing. Right? I mean, there are easier ways to live a life. “Get a job,” I could say, “a good paying job that has benefits and health …
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On Days When Spring is Near
I walk out onto the porch with Poppy and Leo on a Sunday afternoon, the kind that convinces us spring still exists and is, in fact, not that far off. There are tiny mounds of snow in the shadowy …
A Book You Need to Know About
Quite a few number of years ago, my wife and I and a few friends were standing up to leave an Over the Rhine concert in Philadelphia when I started talking with a kind young woman behind me. It turned …
Regarding a Weekend We Won’t Soon Forget (and Exciting News About My Next Book)
We sat on sofas and on the floor. We tried to catch up on each other's lives in a few short days. We ate and we laughed and listened. Some of their written words read out loud made me cry. There …
I Confess that I Painted the Green Table
I must confess I painted the green table and the yellow chairs, the ones we bought when we were first married fifteen years ago when my stomach was flat and we didn't shy from starting …
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The First Time I Read Charlotte’s Web to Leo, It Ended With Tears…So Naturally We’re Reading it Again
About six months ago, I read Charlotte's Web to Leo for the first time. We read one chapter every night, and he fell in love with Charlotte immediately. When we got to the last page of the chapter …