Resonance
Written 1/11/26 The back door was kept busy as the kids went back and forth to the trampoline, deeply immersed in some game I could not figure out. And maybe that was the point….no purpose, just play. Ages five to fourteen, all tangled up together. And we knew they would get hungry, likely soon. We needed to act before the hangry kid mob wrecked the gathering. I gathered each kid’s order for P. Terry’s, our go-to for quick and easy burgers. The five-year-old clarified at le
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Allowing
I’m late to the Stranger Things craze. But my daughter is a huge fan, and is now making her second pass through all the episodes while I’m still in season 1. There’s a sequence early on where a kid, Will, goes missing, and the mother, Joyce, is, of course, distraught. She has this very real-to-her experience of knowing Will is still alive, and that knowing comes through some hard-to-believe interactions with lamps and Christmas lights. (The show eludes any brief explanations,
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Retiring from the theater
My friend, Jeff, and I have known each other now for over thirty years, having met back in our college days. When my wife and I moved to Austin in 2008, Jeff was the first friend I reconnected with. Ever since, we’ve managed to keep a pretty consistent schedule of meeting up for some physical activity and/or dinner. And though our wilder days are behind us, we are still able to regularly find some good laughs. Back in November, the news of the most recent metastasis of my co
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