This summer my daughter Sophie came to visit me from Montreal. She sat down at the piano in my Long Beach living room. She started leafing through a stack of old practice books that were gathering dust. Soft at the corners. Inside: gold stars and animal stickers applied by a …
A true story… I’ve loved sailing since I was a kid— and if you asked me how that started, I’d be tempted to point to my first lesson. But that’s not really accurate. It happened on the second day, about a hundred yards from the dock. I was ten, more …
When our six-year-old’s temper tantrums spiraled out of control, a child psychiatrist gave us an approach to try. It turned out to be the best leadership advice I ever received. A funny, true story about parenting, system design, and what happens when you build the right container for a problem-solver.
A stranger knocked on the front door of my Bucks County farmhouse. What followed was one of the most unexpected afternoons of my life — a story about houses, memory, and the lives that get passed forward through the walls we live in.
A nine-year-old city kid discovers the Maine woods in 1969. Fifty years later, his father’s fading memory holds onto “Gus’s cabin” while everything else dissolves. A story about what stays, what goes, and finding one’s way.
