Alana was our saviour yesterday. F has finished school for the year and was home all day. I had a lot to get done before leaving for vacation to see my mother in NC. Alana hung out with F and did a few projects- like making a movie poster for the movie that we have been working on. F is still...
Last night Alana and I went to meet with my friend Yvette. I've know Yvette for over a decade but we've always hung out in group setting so I didn't know much about her background. Shortly after I posted my op-ed Yvette contacted me to tell me that she was adopted and had been thinking a lot about it recently....
When i was in my 20's and playing in a rock band i never thought about having kids- or even really growing up myself. i spent most of my time chasing creativity....
I made my first post a few days ago. One of the commenters was Alana Sveta. She invited me to use a song of hers for my movie.I listened and was blown away. Turns out that she was on her way from New Orleans to Brooklyn on tour. A few days after writing her comment, she was staying at my...
It's 9am on Sunday - father's day and I have just woken up. With our kids this is a rarity- usually I am up at 7:45 and my wife is up at 6ish. I get up and take the kids to school or out to play and she goes back to sleep for awhile. Since it's father's day they are making...
It's an odd coincidence that I chose to start this blog a couple of day's before Father's Day. It's also ironic that ever since I started working on this my older daughter F's attitude and behavior have deteriorated so rapidly. While taking a break from thinking about this essay just now, I read a headline that screamed, "Obama Asks Men...
Last night i couldn't sleep because I kept having ideas about how to put things together. i got up and wrote a lot of it down and it still made sense in the morning....
Until my friend Lois brought it up, I really hadn't thought about having been a sperm donor for some time. Perhaps it drifted into a conversation every couple of years, but it wasn't front and center in my conciousness. As I write that I realize that some-possibly many DC (donor conceived) -people might be hurt by that- the idea that...
At the bottom of this post is an op-ed of sorts that I have written that relates to a film that I have begun to work on about the nature of family. I have been taking notes and talking to people about the issues but i feel like this is a film that can't really form in a vacuum- so...
You can't write this stuff. "The Ratings King" will stop at nothing to get re-upped....
Before Ted Geisel wrote about Green Eggs and Ham and The Cat in The Hat, he was in the army making short hype films. Thanks to noted film preservationist Dennis Nyback you can now see them...