The Adventures of Adi and David

Listen on Spotify Adi and I went for our morning walk today through the park.  This has become somewhat of a ritual for us as we transition to a new phase of our lives.  Our daughter graduates from high school in less than 30 days and I am left eyeing the end of one book of my life while anticipating the turning of the page beginning what I can only conclude would be the final book of my life. I mentioned to Adi recently that I sense that I will have essentially three books of my life:  The first began […]

As we get older, death is supposed to be easier to understand, being a by-product of life itself.  Death is supposed to be less of a surprise as we age, but yet, it still is.  Death still surprises us.  I find myself writing a lot more obituaries lately or maybe the more modern term, Celebration of Life Missives.  More surprising still, each one I write gets harder. I’ve written an obituary for my father, mother, brother, sister, two friends, Adi’s grandparents and now…Adi’s mom, Sheri Lynn Davis.  She passed away Sunday, August 27, 2023 at 11:28 pm after being ill

Listen on Spotify! Second chapters are often interesting and far different from our first chapter.  The first time I walked onstage to perform standup comedy was May 6, 1989.  I was terrified and incidentally, I was also terrible in my first outing.  Regardless, I was hooked and continued to perform as many times as I could at the local open mic night.  I would love to say success came quickly—it didn’t.  It took a long time being very bad before I got “kinda” good.  After working diligently and never giving up, I was asked to become the house MC at