seeing through lucy’s eyes

Any parent will have this experience, I supposed, but I’ve been especially aware of it recently: Having your 19-month-old daughter with you will invariably make you look at the normal everyday things you pass in a completely new way. It’s a little bit like a backwards-facing time machine for your point of view [...]

falling down

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about falling from buildings. It’s a problem associated, I suppose, with living in a city with a lot of tall buildings around.
But there seem to be more than our share of incidents recently. Earlier this month, a guy working construction on a new Trump building in Soho [...]

a kind of genius

practice = consistency = genius

do de rubba duck

our latest favorite song:

st john is divine

I don’t go to church all that often. But I’ve just reconnected with some folks over at Episcopal Charities and my parents happen to be in town. What better excuse to go to the 11 am service yesterday at St John the Divine?
It’s well worth the visit, whether or not you actually go [...]

lucy’s tricycle

Grandma and Grandpa got Lucy a tricycle for Christmas this year. She’s never been so excited about anything ever.

new year’s resolve

Lucy and me practicing our words on New Year’s Day 2008 with the aid of some really big gloves:

the war of northern aggression

I swear, it didn’t even occur to me that there were monuments to people who fought on the side of the Union in the Civil War until I moved up north of the Mason-Dixon. But then Grand Army Plaza was only a few blocks away when I first moved to the city, and now [...]

pictures we used on our christmas cards this year

lucy’s 18-month birthday

Video of us celebrating at the playground: