This Very Moment delivers stories about love, loss, and other emergencies.

A Substack Featured Publication 2025.

I write about what I notice as a dad to two teens, a husband of twenty years still learning how to love better, and as a volunteer EMT in our small town, in Upstate New York. These stories explore how we take care of ourselves and each other, and how the way we tell our stories can change—and maybe even save—our lives.

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Reader favorites:

1. The Things We Lose: On becoming unattached

2. Beautiful Things: On walking through the aftermath

3. Trying to Relate: Being together for the long haul

4. Not One, Not Two: How we see other people

5. Melancholia: Through the bends, between the bars

6. Everything Ever After: Love, possibility, and Jesse’s Girl

7. Into the Woods: Losing, looking, and finding