15MAR22 UPDATE: A development has arisen which has prompted me to return to this post for required edits. It has been brought to my attention that the sale of healthy human parts is big business not only in the US…
I recently watched Tick, Tick… Boom! the Netflix movie about the life of Jonathan Larson, the writer of Rent. It moved me to tears.
On December 10, 2021 I was diagnosed with cancer. It turned out to be a moment of clarity and grace.
We were in a white room. That much I knew. There were images on the walls but I couldn’t quite make out their colors or shapes. Lately, things were mostly just smudges of light and dark. But it didn’t matter…
A man who was once homeless and suicidal discusses how he overcame alcoholism to live a soberly for 30 years.
Next to sobriety, fatherhood has been the most important experience of my life. When the heart expands, it never goes back.
Writer. Father to daughters. Husband. Ad man. Raised by wolves. 
