First, apologies for the absence last week. To be honest, stuff got to me. Second: The stuff. Beth and I have faced a lotta stuff. What distinguished us early in our lives is that we experienced medical stuff pretty early in our lives. We did not have contemporaries who grasped it. But we were young. […]

In Beth’s last post, you may have noticed a couple things: The photos were extremely sharp and well composed The list of kids’ questions was longer than usual That’s because our pal Jamie Ceaser has been driving Miss Beth and accompanying her to school visits more than usual because of Beth’s broken wrist. Beth would […]

Luna, Beth’s new dog, is a gem. She doesn’t wake us up at 5:30 to eat (which is when Whitney used to wake us up). She stays out of the kitchen. She likes to play fetch. She only poops once a day. She walks really fast. And sometimes too fast. I know this because I’ve […]

It happens at the end of every year: News outlets recap the biggest stories of the past 12 months. Only this year also marks the end of a decade, so we’re getting recaps of the past 10 years. This practice has always aggravated me because, well, dividing time arbitrarily by decade has always seemed dumb. […]

I write from the lobby of the LePavillon Hotel in New Orleans’ Central Business District. Beth and I are 15,000 steps into our first day in New Orleans and 60 degrees feels pretty good. We just polished off a half a classic muffuletta sandwich from Central Grocery. We are sans Whitney, as loyal readers would […]