The Wrestler

Remembering the fights that Philip Seymour Hoffman won

A Eulogy For My Mother

If the world were comprised of people like our mother, it would be clean and orderly – there would be no poor people or…

Unmerciful World

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Us, and the Scourge of Addiction

Paul Lagos, drummer and chef

It’s not the Idiom, it’s the Idiot

Nuts: A Reflection on Robin Williams and the State of Mental Health in America

Can we finally talk about this?

The symbolism was not lost on me, gauche though it may be. I was preparing a batch of nuts – spiced pecans, that is –…

A Paradox of Grief

Reflecting on life after the death of my mother.

The most beautiful inventor in the world

The actress Hedy Lamarr was once widely considered the most…

Farewell, Chef

Charlie Trotter (1959-2013)

My Father’s Long Shadow

My father’s long shadow – there it is. And when you look somehow beyond him, you gain glimpses of even larger shadows…