Ocean

You’re done with the nuts and blots of the New Haven move-in. You’ve got your return ticket home, but it’s not for a couple of days yet. Wha...

What then? Get up early and get to it. I worked my tail off yesterday. No, really, we both did. On a hot, steamy (yes steamy, damn it, as ...

I’m typing at the desk in the hotel room and, as is often the case in these places, I am staring right into a large mirror, positioned direc...

In the course of one of the many ascents of this moving project , I stopped to catch my breath. Looking out the stairwell window, I was remi...

Two college friends run into each other after a summer away: each on his and her cell phone, they don’t pause in their respective conversati...

(or: how to help a little one move into her college space given that I do not have the Arms of Arnold nor the stamina of a camel; I do have ...

…or, more accurately, waiting to get there. In Cincinnati. At an airport that feels colder than Poland on a mid-January morning (the type of...

...but ever reliable in keeing Ocean afloat. If departures were easy, too many people would leave and there would be no one left at the hom...

(ha! you thought I would miss a day of posting, didn't you? fools!) Is it gonna be wild, is it gonna be the best time Or am I just a-say...

Remember those words from your childhood? Because these days, I don't hear them much. Pause. Exhale. It's time to identify your stat...

And therefore, placing a particular house-purchasing family in a cannonball and firing it skywards seems just about perfect! [And I do not c...

Everyone has a camel and a straw. Mine came tonight. Back broken. No comments necessary! Really. No sympathy, no, nothing please. It will d...

…I climb up on the top of the stairs And all my cares Just drift right into space On the roof is peaceful as can be And there the world belo...

There are people who walk cautiously through life. They take a step, pause, contemplate the possible consequences, retreat, move to the side...

I held it together when the house was not selling and, for legal reasons, it needed to sell or else . I held it together when changes were t...

...and the knife and fork and a bunch of kitchen-ey items, as I got the loft ready for a small group of evening visitors. Or, maybe I should...

...if I promise to post after midnight and show pictures of turtles, fish and marble stone, will you still like me? ...if I tell you that I ...

I did. Today, the soon-to-be-owners of our house asked to bring their parents for a special visit. You know, so they could say –“look ma ...

Five years ago if you had asked me about my non-academic interests, I would have talked about traveling, writing, cooking and, yes, gardenin...

Heirloom tomatoes. Accompanying a bunch of grilled things -- scallions, mushrooms, meats, all of it. The best of the suburban life (of which...