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It’s hard to believe I began this tradition in 2007, something that feels like several lifetimes ago. Since then it’s taken place all across this hemisphere, from NYC’s Lower East Side to its Upper West, from Los Angeles to Florida, from San Francisco to Seattle, and now to hipster Bushwick. It’s al...

As mysteries go, I concede it’s not particularly CSI-worthy. Even so, it’s haunted me all week.  Things began to get weird almost three weeks ago when my iPhone died in the January winter storm. My new phone is superior in every way — except for one loss. My favorite angel card app — ...

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This week, life doubled down on an already uncanny synchronicity. I’ve recently begun writing a new screenplay, something I haven’t done in several years. The day before my haircut with my barber Mitch, I’d spent the night researching movies where one role is played by more than one actor at differen...

It was a twist in the conversation I never saw coming. Interestingly, it began with every author’s fantasy: An incredibly sweet email from a total stranger saying how much she and her friend loved my novel. After several perceptive comments, she concluded with a question. She and her ...

It was almost — quite literally — a Freudian slip. Except it was my trunks I’d left behind, something I only discovered when I got home. It was around a decade ago, during another cold winter, when the same impulse hit me: An intense longing for heat. Imagine my delight when I found an exc...

Our attitudes were remarkably different. Mine: reluctant and begrudging. His: eager and anticipatory, as though he were suddenly ushered into an awesome party he’d just heard about. I’m writing, of course, about Vlad’s first visit to the Apple Store, days after the 14 inches of snow that...

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It’s not that I didn’t believe the stories I’d heard. It’s just that I witnessed only two instances of such destruction. Specifically, I got my chocolate lab Belle from my sister when she was just past puppyhood and therefore less inclined to chew everything in her path. During the first fift...

Mostly it was a viral video moment, overflowing with cuteness. It’s only happened twice before with Zeus — a dead-ringer for Malibu, Vlad’s best friend from their NYC puppyhood. Specifically, it’s on our morning walks through the woods adjoining the college campus that we rarely run in...