Jen and Co.

When Jennifer and I met in 2005, we liked each other immediately. It was just one of those things: I knew we’d be friends. But our friendship didn’t really take off until a year later, when Jen came to work with my team at the Visiting Nurse Service of New York. Over the past five… Continue reading Jen and Co.

A Shift in Perspective

There’s a comfort and a simplicity to my three-legged commute each workday morning. I take the shuttle from my Hoboken apartment to the PATH train; the PATH to 32nd Street and Broadway; then I walk four long blocks to my office at 32nd and Park. The same characters populate my route most days — the porter hosing down the… Continue reading A Shift in Perspective

A Turkey Day Toast to The Lovers, The Dreamers, & Me

Thanksgiving officially became my favorite holiday in 1984. Looking back on that year, when I was 13, I remember it as my initial taste of adulthood, when I felt for the first time I was participating in the grown-up world, and I loved it. My family had just moved to a new house in the College View Drive development… Continue reading A Turkey Day Toast to The Lovers, The Dreamers, & Me