Goodbye parties: first of all, you don’t get many. Second, they’re a unique opportunity to honor someone when they’re alive. Along with weddings and showers, a goodbye party is a chance to gather, appreciate, love, and give credit. But, as this cautionary tale will tell, at many public occasions, there’s also a chance to blow [...]
I love the desert. I’m getting a divorce. I’m selling my suburban Salt Lake home. And, for the first time in my entire life, I have the chance to decide where to live all by myself. Right now I’m choosing Moab, Utah. To me it seems a combination of Hawaii, Nome, and Borrego Springs: all [...]
My dad was a brilliant suburban Cleveland kid, a loner, and an only child till his little brother came along when he was 12. Starting his teenage years with a little tag-along brother couldn’t have been easy. He wasn’t brilliant in school academics, though, telling my brothers and me that his teacher separated the class [...]
