Category Archives: Personal

In the opening shot of Sofia Coppola’s most recent movie, Somewhere, the camera sits in a single position revealing about a third of a race track in the California desert.  A car enters the frame, circles around, disappears.  The sound … Continue reading →

I woke early on Christmas morning to a dream of my mother.  She was lumbering down a narrow alley wearing a hefty coat.  All around her were pillars of concrete block infilled with giant industrial windows divided into dozens of … Continue reading →

This is the eulogy I gave at my mother’s funeral in Dnever on June 26, 2010. November 15 of 2001 was the height of the Indian summer in Massachusetts.  My mother and I drove up to the North Shore of … Continue reading →