This has been a rough year. In January we said goodbye to Puck and Uncle Bobby. Last week we had to say goodbye to Laney. She’d been a constant in my life for the past 19 years. When I first moved to Philadelphia, I was ready to get a new pet so my friend Erin […]
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Bob Greenbaum
As I mentioned recently, my uncle Bob Greenbaum passed away in January. This past weekend friends and family came together to celebrate his life. We heard from friends, family members, and activists who had worked with him during his many years with the Northeast Ohio Sierra Club and many other organizations. We heard about how […]
Puck (2010 – 2018)
Puck went to sleep yesterday and didn’t wake up. He was the sweetest, goofiest, most annoying, and most loving cat I’ve ever known. Puck brought so much joy (and so much frustration) to our household and it’s still hard to believe he’s gone. But he crammed a lot of life into 7 and a half […]
The Loving Project, or what I did during 2017
The last regularly scheduled episode of the Loving Project podcast has been released. For the past 12 months, we’ve been conducting interviews with couples in interracial marriages and turning those stories into podcast episodes that illuminate a bit of what it’s like to be in a mulitracial family 5 decades after the Supreme Court struck […]
On bigotry, racism, and love in a time of hate
Originally posted to Facebook… but some things should be said publicly: I’ve been writing and rewriting this post trying to find words strong enough to condemn the violence that cost lives in Charlottesville yesterday, the growing realization that racism and bigotry aren’t ever going to just die out as an older generation gives way to […]
50 years of Loving
June 12th marks the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that legalized interracial marriage across the country and paved the way for the much more recent (and long overdue) decision that also made same sex marriage legal. The case of Loving v. Virginia involved a black woman and her white husband who were married […]
How we make The Loving Project podcast (recording gear, audio editing software)
It’s been 50 years since the Supreme Court issued a ruling that overturned state laws banning marriages between people of different races. On June 12th, 1967 the Supreme Court issued its ruling in the case of Loving v. Virginia, and my wife and I are marking the anniversary by interviewing people in interracial marriages today […]
Saving an audio mixer after spilling water on it
I record interviews, voice tracks, and occasionally some music for the Loving Project and LPX Show podcasts from my home office. And after ten years of use, my aging Alesis audio mixer was starting to go on the fritz, so I picked up a $200 Yamaha MG10XU mixer in December. It has cleaner preamps than my […]
A new chapter
Journalism is just as important in 2017 as it has ever been, if not more so. It’s the job of journalists to hold government officials accountable for their words and actions, to keep the public informed, and to shine a light on subjects that many might otherwise find too easy to overlook. But after spending […]
Introducing the Loving Project podcast
I’ve been happily married for 10 years, and my wife and I are looking forward to many more years together. But if we’d been married more than 50 years ago, our relationship would not have been recognized in parts of the country. That’s because at that point there were 16 states that still had laws […]
Introducing the LPX Show podcast
After a decade writing about technology for the web and more than 15 years of working in radio, I’ve finally brought the two together. The result? A new podcast featuring interviews with people doing interesting things in tech. I call it LPX, because I wanted a name that’s sort of related to Liliputing. But I […]
Building a DIY walking desk with a $200 treadmill
Two years ago I decided to get up off my butt and stand at attention while working. But while my DIY standing desk helped my posture and attention span a bit, it didn’t make up for the fact that as someone who works from home, there’s a lot of inactivity in my routine. It’s just […]
Garlic scapes, cherry tomatoes, and strawberries
The strawberries came, and they’ve almost gone. While most popular strawberry varieties are called “June bearing,” most of our crop matured in May. There are still a few stragglers here and there, but it looks like we’re done with the big juicy strawberries. That’s okay, because I’ve developed a taste for smaller berries… but at […]
The year of the strawberries
Last spring I planted 4 strawberry plants in containers in the rooftop garden. As the weather got warmer and the plants took root, small flowers started to appear. But following the advice of pretty much everybody who talks about growing strawberries, I resisted the urge to let those flowers bloom and pinched them off in […]