Land’s End: A Memoir

You might say Annette was my first girlfriend, since we went to a prom together, sealing the deal.  We were both seniors nearing graduation, and it must have been her high school prom.  I hadn’t paid much attention to girls until then, except in slick magazines, since I attended an all-boys Catholic school in San…

An urban story of a young couple renovating a dilapidated Philadelphia row house, and finding that the entire neighborhood made good use of it. Manya and I had just arrived at that age when the urge to create our own space became overwhelming. That is to say, we had to act on something, anything. There…