There is, it seems, for each of us, a fixed number of words. During the course of one’s life, there is a maximum. I tell you this not as a fact, but as a warning.… The Limit

(January 17, 2009) At a Lambda Alpha meeting the other day, at a table full of architects, the subject of the Price Tower came up.  I’m not a fan, and I said so, calling it… Price Tower

October 7, 2016 Our school had a fair every year, sort of a mini-Renaissance Fair called the Rites of May.  It took place in, well, May, in the courtyard of the school.  This being Hyde… Too Much Coffee

The new release of West Side Story, I’m told, doesn’t include the big duet of  Somewhere that’s in the 1960s movie.  It was a big deal, with Natalie Wood and whoever the dude was singing… Romeo

February 25.2022 “I don’t care if it did happen that way. Change it. It’s boring.” – My sophomore creative writing teacher. I don’t know if this story is true. In retrospect, I doubt it. It’s… Grandpa Dan’s Peanut

My mother’s Parkinson’s disease changes how she walks.  Not just her stride, her stutter-step, her false starts, but how she walks, her means for doing so.  When she begins her stride, she breathes as if… Neurology and flying

(Composed while talking to Oliver, age 4 or 5, who asked. For some reason, it all came out rhyming) I was sitting at the station, I was waiting for a trainwhen something came to happen… How I Met Your Mother