2024.03.DisappearingMoment
Merle (2012-03-21 – 2024-03-21) The photo of Merle links to a short video. Turn up your volume to hear Merle purr. Welcome to March 2024’s Disappearing...
2024.02.DisappearingMoment
I’ve had some minor aches and injuries over the past few months. Nothing terrible. More like the Henny Youngmann joke. No long or fast running for a little...
2024.01.DisappearingMoment
Disappearing Moment reflects my need to keep things simple. We can be mindful about how we spend our time and money. We can practice empathy and kindness. We...
2023.12.DisappearingMoment
This issue of the newsletter marks three years of Disappearing Moment. I realize that publishing a short, monthly newsletter isn’t a heavy lift. Or, rather,...
2023.11.DisappearingMoment
This month marked the end of Pacella Partners, an investment club my friend Mike and I have had for 21 years. We put money into it when we felt like it and...
2023.10.DisappearingMoment
I'm writing this with my little cat, Suki, on my lap. If you know our four cats, she's the smallest. The one who wears a collar. Suki is dying a lot faster...
2023.09.DisappearingMoment
I’ve been publishing this monthly newsletter for almost three years. To this point, I’ve never missed one of my self-imposed deadlines by more than a few...
2023.08.DisappearingMoment
The highlight of my month was watching the World Athletics Championships. The best track and field athletes spent nine days competing in Budapest. Imagine...
2023.07.DisappearingMoment
Don't go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before Don't imagine you're too familiar And I don't see you anymore My grandmother, my...
2023.06.DisappearingMoment
My library career started 17 years ago. That’s when I enrolled in library school at Drexel University and found my people. I’ve had well over a thousand...
2023.05.DisappearingMoment
I stopped following sports on Wednesday, November 9, 2016. It was my hair shirt, penance for our collective atrocity. I planned to spend more time...
2023.04.DisappearingMoment
I have no stomach for people who whine about identity or gender politics. We need to fight until America stops abusing people for their demographic...
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:...