It’s been more than three weeks, and for most of us, life returned to “normal” long ago. Or never left it, frankly. The whole thing really shook a lot of us here in Arizona — particularly in my favorite Arizona city, Tucson. I was lucky enough to travel there a week and a half ago, […]
We’ve been singing the body electric in our house a lot, these days. They won’t let me embed the video here, but if you’ve never seen the movie Fame — or it’s been a while — and you need a pick me up, please take a minute and watch this. See? Don’t you feel awesome? […]
I love Facebook. I know people love to hate it — and I have my share of that, for sure – but I particularly loved it last night, when I posed the following: Sophie insists she wants to do her science fair project about carousels. Any suggestions? I’m not sure I’m up to building one. The […]
The illustrations for this week’s cover story in Phoenix New Times (my day job) are really remarkable. The story is about mental health care in Arizona (or lack thereof) and the dangerous idea of hindsight, following a huge tragedy. Our art director started playing with the notions of Rorschach tests and optical illusions. Here’s an interview […]
In light of the events of the last week and a half, I decided Saturday to get a little bit brave myself. Nothing by comparison, of course, but this was big for me. I sat for two hours and stared at adults with developmental disabilities. Don’t worry, it was entirely appropriate — a production by […]
On Sunday afternoon, our little family was invited to celebrate with a good friend of Annabelle’s. It was the best idea for a birthday party, ever, and the simplest. Play-Doh. That’s it. Just two huge tables and dozens of containers of Play-Doh. The adults had as much (more?) fun as the kids. I made a […]
I couldn’t help but notice that Sophie colored MLK her favorite shade.
I don’t know that I have anything to say about what happened in Tucson that has much more meaning than anything anyone else has to say, but a very nice editor at the Washington Post insisted otherwise, and this piece I wrote will appear in the paper’s Outlook section tomorrow. It could have happened anywhere — […]
For the last day, I haven’t been able to get the tune to the Aerosmith song “Janie’s Got A Gun” out of my head. But in my head it’s: Sophie’s got a gun…. I was interviewing a lawyer yesterday who does a lot of work on behalf of the mentally ill, and we were talking (because […]
