Oct 18, 20205 min readThis weekend I was in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and it was a very thoughtful trip.This weekend I was in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and it was a very thoughtful trip. We were there for my son’s birthday: every year he...
Sep 3, 20205 min readWest Garfield Park, June 2013“This section of the West Side is just beyond Garfield Park, a major tourist destination. I think it’s always surprising to people when...
May 22, 20205 min readOn Being Human - Part 2 of 2For each of the essays in Tender Tales of Tremendous Catastrophe, I think it's important to give the first-person backstory that each is...
May 12, 20207 min readOn Being Human - Part 1 of 2With the downtime we all now have, I've set about writing a non-fiction book about a life spent interviewing and talking intimately to...
Dec 25, 20184 min readSometimes My Heart BreaksTrue crime is a very rough beat at times. Almost all my interviewees have been through some form of hell and the interviews are...