On certain Saturdays during the school year, I read to second graders in a school under the Manhattan Bridge. I love to walk down, get the blood pumping, breathe deeply of the cool air. As I get closer, the day is just waking up, huge delivery trucks dropping off boxes of groceries, tiny forklifts carrying …
About a million years ago, when I was 17, I auditioned for a local university’s summer stock production of South Pacific in my hometown. I really wanted to be in this production because I had moved to New York, was studying there to be an actor, and planned a career in acting. When you move …
There have been a lot of articles recently about a growing epidemic, a disease that can’t be cured with a pill or an operation, loneliness. Evidence points to social media as a prominent cause. It was bad enough, ten years ago, to be flooded with images that you couldn’t hope to measure up to: impossibly …
Last night I reached out to a friend to confirm some upcoming plans. I had texted her twice during the day without response and was getting worried. When we finally connected by phone, it became clear that she was suffering a really bad day. First, she had been disappointed at work. She had been looking …
When I was younger, Halloween was my holiday. I loved dressing up as someone else and feasting on candy or – later – going to a party and the liberty that being someone else gave me. First memory, going to the library in town for a Halloween party. Too small to understand even what we …
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