http://www.benjaminwagner.com New York City Singer/Songwriter, Journalist & Filmmaker Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:36:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en These days, it takes me about one minute to tell people that Abbi and I are expecting. Take last night for example. I walked out of my office around nine o'clock. The building was nearly empty, so my elevator went express. When the doors opened 29 floors below, ... http://www.benjaminwagner.com/2010/03/12/the-bump/ My brother, Christofer, called Sunday morning. "Dude, is there any way you can watch the boys this afternoon?" he asked breathlessly. Jen took Ella to the hospital. I'm running up there to meet her." My pointer finger was on their Upper West Side buzzer fifteen minutes later. I could ... http://www.benjaminwagner.com/2010/03/10/crazy-nephews/ Last night, just before her eyes turned heavy after her traditional page and a half of reading, I slipped a pair of Sony headphones onto Abbi's belly, and pushed play. I was running two hours behind my "Forever Young" recording schedule when singer/songwriter Misty Boyce finally took her seat at the ... http://www.benjaminwagner.com/2010/03/08/golden-slumbers/ Jamie Leonhart and I arrived to our "Forever Young" recording session a few minutes early, so set out for a cup of coffee. The sun was broken free of the weekend's snow-choked clouds. The trickle of melting snow hummed beneath the rumble of passing subways, far off-music and a faint ... http://www.benjaminwagner.com/2010/03/01/but-now-i-see/ I began recording my eighth studio LP (and sixteen solo album overall), "Forever Young," Saturday night in Brooklyn. The ten-song LP is scheduled for a fall release. Though the idea behind this new record gestated slowly, it ultimately came together pretty quickly. It starts, I guess, with Ethan. My brother's ... http://www.benjaminwagner.com/2010/02/23/forever-young-lp-due-this-fall/ Abbi and I went to our first birthing class the other night, a three-trimesters in three-hours mini-marathon spanning everything from reflexology to relaxin. The class was held at Real Birth, a pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and new parent community center born of the Elizabeth Seton Childbearing Center (where Ethan was born). ... http://www.benjaminwagner.com/2010/02/12/keep-breathing/ "It's not about us anymore." Tarrytown, New York, is a quaint little village tucked into the eastern bank of the ice-choked Hudson River, some 25 miles north of midtown Manhattan. One of my earliest NYC-pals, John Rosenblatt (he of SNL Shorts fame) his wife, Marnie, and son, Wylie, hosted Abbi ... http://www.benjaminwagner.com/2010/02/08/baba-oriley/ Funny story from Dominican Republic. Sort of. Our hotel, Casa Colonial, was wedged in the middle of Playa Dorado, a World Bank-funded hotel, golf course and mall development roughly half-way between the Puerto Plata Airport, and Puerto Plata itself. Again, I can't say enough nice things about the hotel ... http://www.benjaminwagner.com/2010/02/04/the-wave/ Remember those single-panel "Family Circus" cartoons where illustrator Jeff Keane drew a rambling, dotted line to indicate little Billy's often-mischievous and always-circuitous routes around his neighborhood? Were Mr. Keane to illustrate Abbi and my week in the Domincan Republic, he wouldn't need to use much ink. Casa Colonial provided VIP treatment from ... http://www.benjaminwagner.com/2010/02/01/nuestra-magnifica-luna-del-bebe-en-la-casa-colonial/ http://www.benjaminwagner.com/2010/02/01/dominican-republic-winter-2010/