2023.03.DisappearingMoment
I watched three high school hockey games this month. The first was the 3A semi-finals of the Flyers Cup.The second was the final game of the Flyers Cup. It...
2023.02.DisappearingMoment
My paternal grandparents lived into their nineties. They were old for at least half their lives. That's how they saw themselves. They didn't consider Old a...
2023.01.DisappearingMoment
Privilege is terrifying. Not the idea of losing it. I’m talking about the responsibility that comes with it. The obligation to redistribute it. This month,...
2022.12.DisappearingMoment
When my friend Eugene became a father, the thing he wasn’t ready for was the worry. He knew it would be there. That wasn’t the surprise. What got him was its...
2022.11.DisappearingMoment
Earlier this month, I attended an American Library Association meeting in Chicago. As the meeting ended, we discovered that four of us had flights that...
2022.10.DisappearingMoment
2022.10.DisappearingMoment You get to an age where you should only make recommendations about music to people who love you, and only if they ask. It happens...
2022.09.DisappearingMoment
Today falls in the midst of the Days of Awe: Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and the Days of Repentance that bridge them. It is a chance to make things right with...
2022.08.DisappearingMoment
August is birthday month in our household. About half of the family birthdays we celebrate occur in August. A new niece expanded our collection this month:...
2022.07.DisappearingMoment
I’ve been a lot more social over the past few weeks than I’ve been in several years. It started as I set up time with friends before the ALA Annual...
2022.06.DisappearingMoment
Calvin Trillin wrote that all families have a message. In Trillin’s family it was, “You might as well be a mensch.” For me, in my family, the message was,...