I write about things here that interest me. The topics are all over the place, ranging from burritos and business to my deepest feelings and most powerful memories. What connects them is me.
I recommend you check out the featured blog posts at the bottom of the page, which are some of my personal favorites.
You can also find my most recent blog post below. I publish a new one every month.
Dancing makes me happy, pure and simple. It’s so reliable in that way, like my kids, or freshly grilled hot dogs on a summer day. But for all of my love and passion for dancing, I still get this weird feeling inside when I talk about it.
Business, and particularly small, family business, has always fascinated me. I love the hustle of it, the creativity, the cooperation. There’s a beauty and an art to the whole process that I’ve been chasing ever since I was a boy.
Slide shows were an important ritual of my youth and I still vividly remember the details. The rich, vintage colors of 35mm film. The slow dissolve between images. And of course the beam of light traveling through space, cone-shaped with distinct edges, illuminating the dust particles dancing in the air.
Both sides of my history, half Havana, half South Buffalo, are essential parts of who I am that have shaped me.
When I remember Fred I see him out in the yard in his old blue jacket. He’s smiling and breathing warm clouds into the cold, crisp air. He’s happy to be outside, happy to be raking leaves.
A mosh pit started in the middle of the floor. I kept looking over. I wanted to join in so unbelievably bad. I hadn’t been in a mosh pit in a decade or more.