The Urban Resident

Tag: children

  • A Letter to My Children

    To my children, I don’t remember much of being your age and so now I am wondering what your earliest memories of me will be. You have already begun to divide time into a world before and after the virus; will you remember your father the same way? What do you wish I had told…

  • The Dunkachino Deception

    “A-dunk-a-dunk-a-dunk-achino!”  The kid did some 70’s move as he sang and swiveled his knees.  I was a little stunned.  “Have you ever seen Jack and Jill?” he asked.  Still stunned. “Uh, no?” “You know Al Pacino?” “Uh, yeah?” “In the movie, he does this commercial for Dunkin’ Donuts, and this thing where he goes a-dunk-a-dunk-a-dunkachino.…