How to Remember
Stories We Can't Stop Telling
How to End a Year Without Time
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How to Have (a Little) Hope
We were looking for a place to lock up our bikes when we heard the cheering and the honking and the banging on pots and pans. My wife and I were in the...
How to Make Masks
On crafting Halloween
How to Be an Adult
Piet Mondrian, Broadway Boogie Woogie (1942)Endings these days feel rare but are nevertheless everywhere. While replenishing our allergy meds, I noticed that...
How to Take a Test
When the choices don't seem that multiple
How to Talk to Yourself in a New Place
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How to Pass Time
Days are all middle now. No part of the week feels different from any other, any instant could be any part of any day. In the 120+ days of quarantine, we’ve...
How It's Made
I love the show How It’s Made. If you’ve never heard of it, the show is a documentary-style presentation of the manufacturing all number of things, from...
How to Prepare for a New Year
I still look forward to the winding of hearts at the beginning of each year. People rummage in drawers and pockets for weeks, as they do with anything seldom...
How to Decorate a Tree
Here's something I wrote a few years back about Christmas trees and new traditions. It's a little old but still fits more or less. May it give you a few...
How to Camp
The drive from New York City up to the Adirondacks takes five hours. It’s mainly long-legged highway, straight and mindless, until we near the mountains...
How to Step Up
HOW TO STEP UP Our daughter Q finished 8th grade in June and starts high school in the fall. These days this transition gets formally recognized by a...
How to Respect Service
Memorial Day in New York City is somewhat of a big deal for two reasons. First, lots of people leave for the weekend, which opens up more space (physically...
How to Keep Going
M, our son, asked for clothes for Christmas. For years he loved LEGOs, and his room still contains clumps of bricks that we assembled together, products of a...
How to Stop Believing
When my daughter Q was 7, she had a loose baby tooth succumb to a spoonful of lemon yogurt. As she wrote her note for the Tooth Fairy (asking for both the...
How to Pick a Fight
We live in a New York neighborhood that doesn’t seem like a New York neighborhood. Battery Park City is a relatively new notch added on the lower west side...
How to Mark Time
M and Q, our son and daughter, spent the two-week Christmas/New Year’s break perfecting their lethargy. They stretched out in their rooms, streamed music and...
