max s. gerber(the latest shot)

in about ten weeks i’ll be an uncle. that is, i’ll be an uncle officially. my brother is having a baby. it feels like i’ve been an uncle for a very long time. even though i don’t see my many honorary nieces and nephews very often these days, there’s a strange sort of closeness that [...]

growing up i would’ve said i was a dog person. really. but winona is the cat of my life. amazing to think i got her seventeen years ago, at the beginning of my senior year of high school. she’s lived with me the past twelve years straight, through dog attacks, unfriendly room-mates, two lovely girlfriends [...]

yesterday (friday, august 1st) i turned 35. that seems like the last good milestone in age – at least, the last one before each birthday is met purely with regret and recriminations. of course, that’s not to say that 35 didn’t slam me head on with life-angst, but i figure i still have another four [...]

a few weeks ago dylan’s mother called me to say that everyone wanted to do an update to our mirror picture from 2001 that’s in the hearts book. it turns out dylan and his family were going to be visiting mario in camarillo on memorial day and we took that as a perfect opportunity to [...]

(click here to see the pics) a couple weekends ago i got to haul myself over to the philadelphia airport marriott to attend the Adult Congenital Heart Association’s 2008 conference. while there i got to sign books and take pictures of the conference attendees. signing books is a weird thing. i never know quite what [...]