by robert | Mar 6, 2013 | Article, Santa Fe Reporter
I’ve never been one for trampolines. My father drilled it into his four boys that the acrobat’s terra not-so-firma ended up more often in compound fractures than the free feeling of being able to fly. Before we went to a friend’s whose parents were either too drunk or...
by robert | Mar 6, 2013 | Article, Santa Fe Reporter
1. My mother would have turned 82 on Feb. 1. She died at 52 on a rented hospital bed in our dining room in Connecticut. 2. As I write this, friends and family are gathering at the Sky Rink in Chelsea Piers in New York City to remember my college friend Brian who...
by robert | Dec 5, 2012 | Article, Santa Fe Reporter
My friend Larry was trying to explain. “It’s like I’m Rodney Dangerfield in Back to School,” he said, “only without the money.” We were sitting around our friends’ and former professors’ kitchen table, watching dogs and kids and Legos mix it up on the floor while...
by robert | Nov 15, 2012 | Article, Santa Fe Reporter
Dani: Saturday, Oct. 20, 2:13 am I’m dancing with my friends in Taylor’s living room, singing along with Stevie Wonder, and delighting in the smell of Topanga Canyon wafting through the windows. Dani: Saturday, 4:07 am We’re huddled together on the futon, trying to...
by robert | Nov 7, 2012 | Article, Santa Fe Reporter
Dani: Thursday, Oct. 18, 12:24 pm I give my carry-on and the bin holding my desert boots and water bottle a shove, and wave down the pasty TSA agent manning the body-scanning machine. “I’m opting out,” I tell him. “You’re opting out of this technology?” he asks,...
by robert | Nov 7, 2012 | Article, Santa Fe Reporter
“You got a lot of hate mail on that last column.” I was standing in a parking lot on St. Michael’s Drive watching my son London step in front of a solar panel the size of an oven door when a stranger approached me. Part of a neighborhood re-visioning celebration, the...
