I used to smoke cigars. Back in the day, there was little more enjoyable than a sunset sit on the hill behind our country house, with my wife beside me, a glass of wine in my hand, and an A.J. Fernandez New World cigar (my stogie of choice back then) protruding from my lips.

This picture is of me on Christmas morning in 1963, brandishing my big gift of the year: a Mike Mercury Supercar by REMCO. Despite the big smile on my face, I was bitterly disappointed. 

I recently overheard a conversation at my local diner, in which someone commented on a woman’s height, complaining that the “tall bitch” hit her in the head with her backpack on the subway.

It’s Robert Plant’s birthday today. This milestone in the life of the former lead singer of Led Zeppelin will forever remind me of a milestone in my own life: getting married.

As every school kid knows, on July 20, 1969, Commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin clambered down the ladder of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module and were the first humans to set foot on the moon.

4 am is the loneliest hour.

I’ve seen the 1988 blockbuster movie Big many times over the years.

We’re thinking about having a tag sale upstate over the Memorial Day weekend. Tag sales are big business in the Catskills.

The Siri speech to text feature on Apple’s iPhone is great. I use it all the time, primarily because my fingers are just too damn big for the iPhone’s tiny keyboard.

I recently re-watched Jonathan Demme’s film Swimming to Cambodia, based on Spalding Gray’s one-person show of the same name.

I’ve long had an affection for the actor Richard E. Grant, ever since his breakout role in Withnail and I, and despite the rash of clunkers he’s made since then (Hudson Hawk comes painfully to mind).

Writing and voiceover acting complement each other beautifully. As an audiobook narrator, I get to read many different types of work, from children's books, to nonfiction histories, to adult novels.

As an audiobook narrator, your whole career involves reading words, deriving their meaning, knowing their correct pronunciation, and then speaking them into a microphone.

I’m a born storyteller. Whether as a writer, designer, illustrator, audiobook narrator, or simply putting my children to bed, I love to spin a yarn.