You can’t slide these dying eyes
Dad was dying and I was ready. I was ready to close his eyes. Many years ago, I was with…
Writing tools to engage digital readers
Writing tools to engage digital readers
Why I’m a Digital ideaist
At work, I’m a coder, project leader, dreamer, realist, pragmatist, strategist. Call me a digital ideaist. Because, if I don’t…
Watch your world, like a tide, retreat and slide away
I’m not going to get another minute of work done — on this another Work From Home Day — until…
Tomorrow and today
I woke up this morning at 5:30 aware I was on the cusp of two days: March 31 and April…
Three ghosts meet a fool in a bar
My father was dying in the hospital. At the bar, three ghosts changed how I approached his death.
The damn eulogy
You’d think he was blessed. That he was lucky.
Taking a long way home
Seems like a year ago I went to NY to see Pop, watch him die, praise him and bury him.…
Riding with Tommy Bourne
My wife believes driving in a foreign country takes two people. It. Does. Not.
Riding with the talking dead
The Pop I would conjure in my passenger seat is about 47 years old: Confounded by lingering misery. He was…
Punctuation is like a carrot
When do punctuation marks stay inside the quote marks? Always. Imagine you're planting a vegetable garden.
Present simple messages simply
The best way to display simple messages, is simply. In Sunday’s Washington Post is an article on how Metro is trying…
My baby just wrote me a letter
For Christmas, my son wrote me a letter recognizing my difficult year. Keith wrote it with his therapist, who helped…
Lest we forget
For Christmas, my son wrote me a letter chronicling my past year. He wrote about my dad’s death, grieving at…
Jo’burg
First, you get a paper cup. Can be any paper cup: sturdy, little bit deep. Krispy Kreme — Starbucks if…
Going through Pop’s drawers
As I’m going through my Dad’s papers, I’m telling myself he deliberately left what he left. I believe he’s telling…
Conflicting priorities
I thought this was an interesting paradox: one construction project trumping another construction project. Though both projects yield a permanent…
Commas are like a choo-choo train
When's the right time to use a comma in a series in a sentence — and not?
Catch a wave and you’re sitting on top of the world
When you go to Ireland, go first to the west coast to see why these fair-skinned peopled dress in full-length…
Bill Simmons, in his prime
I’ve talked about Bill Simmons in glowing light. He’s a long-winded, online friend to many of us. Like that college friend, you…