In the end, everyone will have his life condensed to a web page. It just happens to be my turn. Herein you will find some things having to do directly with my book Lake Effect, and others, like my friend Jim's story of his cross country excursion through blizzard-bound Manhattan, that touch on the book only glancingly. I have asked many such friends to contribute and some even said yes. I even asked my father, the old Sphinx himself, a courageous act, as once you give the guy a green light he usually won't stop until he plows into the back of some parked car. Well, anyway, it's all part of re-fashioning yourself as a web page. The photos come from a shoe box, the remnants of a larger collection that was sold at a yard sale. That's right, some poor bastard actually bought the Cohens old family photos. I think it was a throw in with the Mattel football. I guess I might as well will wind up with something the old man used to tell me and that I still haven't quite figured the meaning of: "When you strip away the phony tinsel, then you find the real tinsel." Laugh now. It might be your turn next.

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