On Fresh Starts
That's me in the back row, on the left, with the black-white-gray straw fedora. The rest of the people are my community, or guests of my community, Portland ComedySportz, including my true love and partner, Amy Milshtein, who introduced me to this community four years ago. CSz came at the right time for me, as the Metanoia Peace Community, my faith community since 2000, was beginning to transition out of existence. Metanoia also came along at the right time for me, as I was transitioning out of a failed marriage and a failing career. Amy and CSz arrived as I was accepting the harsh reality that my role in my children's lives, already reduced first by divorce and, since 2005, by 700 miles of Interstate highway, was, like Metanoia, shrinking to near non-existence. Through Amy, I have found myself with a second chance to parent adolescent children, the stage of my own children's lives that I mostly experienced over the phone, if at all. In CSz, I have found an outlet and an ...