by Jeremy Topin | Mar 18, 2015 | Balance, Parenting, Teenager
Traevelling 30,000 feet above the ground on my way back to Chicago, it’s hard not to think about distance and space. How people in the same room can still feel worlds apart while others can be physically separated by hundreds of miles and still be intimately...
by Jeremy Topin | Feb 24, 2015 | Balance, Parenting, Teenager
I pull into the driveway, trying to leave that last of my work day behind. As I enter the house, I am greeted by the all too familiar semi-chaotic scene. Lola comes jumping into the hallway, happy to greet, while my kids stay somewhat immobile in their current...
by Jeremy Topin | Feb 12, 2015 | Balance
Harbinger : “one that presages or foreshadows what is to come” It had become somewhat of a fixture in our dining room. I’d pass by it pretty much daily. Can’t help notice it. It’s not small, my bike, given that I’m 6’3″...
by Jeremy Topin | Oct 29, 2014 | Balance, Burnout, Medicine, Parenting
It is September 2012, a bit chilly out, a mist of rain that night, and I find myself a few feet from the stage, packed amongst several hundred others at the Metro. Bob Mould comes out with his new band and promptly starts playing the first song from Copper Blue,...
by Jeremy Topin | Mar 4, 2014 | Balance
I remember sixteen years ago… Your first night on this earth. Your first night in my life. Swaddled up and cradled in my arms, I walked the quiet empty hospital hallways for what seemed like hours. My thoughts racing, disorganized from exhaustion but fueled by...
by Jeremy Topin | Feb 19, 2014 | Balance
“Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.”–Richard Bach It’s has been a bit since I last wrote, but events over the last few days have pulled me back tonight and has...
