Apr 18, 2024 | Current Affairs - Family - History - Travel
I’m married to an avid news follower. Each day, Jan texts me snippets of the news she consumes while she’s doing other things. I’ve long tried to convince her to make these public. Yesterday she started doing just that, on her Threads account...
Sep 18, 2023 | Family - Film & Television
After seeing a terrific one-woman show on Friday night (Charlotte Booker’s original show about Elsie Lanchester), Jan and I came home and she showed me THAT episode of The Bear. (We watched season one this summer, and I’ve been slowly catching up since we...
Jan 23, 2021 | Family - Shakespeare - Writing
This is going to be a little raw. I hope you’ll forgive me. In the summer of 2012, my wife was directing me in Richard III at the Michigan Shakespeare Festival, flipping the script from twelve years earlier when I had directed her in the show. I was playing King...
Feb 28, 2020 | Current Affairs - Essential Posts - Family
Women don’t owe men anything. We, as men, owe it to women, and to ourselves, to be feminists. Here’s why. Originally written for and posted by bestlifeonline.com. I have no trouble sharing my opinion. Why would I? I’m a guy. More than that, I’m...
May 26, 2019 | Current Affairs - Essential Posts - Family - Uncategorized
A couple years back, I was explaining racism to my son, Dash. He was baffled by it, as was I at his age. He lives in a truly diverse neighborhood and goes to a truly diverse school. While he’d studied racism in class, he thought it was a thing of the past.“Oh no,” I...
Jan 18, 2019 | Family - Travel
I have the rather dubious distinction of having been both thrown out of the Vatican, and blessed by the Pope. Though not on the same day. The Vatican Incident (a good Robert Ludlum title) happened while I was on a semester abroad with Eastern Michigan University’s...
