Category PERSONAL

Skummy earned his punk rock name long before I met him. His friend’s 3-year-old son had discovered him hungover and sacked out in the living room, and announced, “Dad, there’s a scummy man asleep on the couch under a scummy…

When I was a girl, my friend Steph’s mother, Edie, an admired artist and calligrapher, drilled this into us: “If you have something nice to say to someone, say it now. Don’t wait, because one never knows what tomorrow may…