I'm crying as if I'm bleeding the tears out of me. My head is resting on Samantha's chest, and aside from the feel of her warmth I can focus on nothing. Blackness swirls disarmingly around me, making me cling to her for fear of my life. I can't move. I can barely breathe. I sob helpless...  read more

I live in New York City, Manhattan specifically, and August 14th is when the lights went out. I was sitting in my colleague Rachel’s office. The lights brightened and dimmed, enough to cause us to stop our conversation, then as we looked at each other with puzzled expressions, the lights ...  read more

Last Sunday morning, like most mornings, the kids were up way too early. Since during the week, Jen's usually the one left to wrangle them after I've left for work, I came downstairs with them. Shunning the TV, they settled on the floor in the den, so I logged on and lazily browsed the web. At fi...  read more

My liver hates me.In fact, if my liver were capable of thought, speech and movement I'm sure it would've already jumped out of my mouth, said "Adios Motherfucker" and hitched a ride to The Betty Ford Clinic. Sadly though, my liver is incapable of these things. Instead, it must endure th...  read more

It was a normal day in downtown Manhattan and I remember it being around 2:30 p.m. when my computer and all the lights in the building shut off. Our first thought was that our building went out. Within 15 minutes, the streets filled up and you could hear crowd noise. We looked out the windows and...  read more

I was there experienced 2 days with no electricity

What a hot day! All of July was perfect in southwest Connecticut, but the day we got married, it was super hot. So hot, that the whole northeast lost power a few days later, but by then we were in Italy...