All you could do was go, Ooh.
she really let herself go.
Boy, did he get old.
I didn’t want to be that guy.
…in my mind, reunions and reboots were always a little pathetic.
All you could do was go, ‘Ooh.
she really let herself go.
Boy, did he get old.’
I didn’t want to be that guy.
This is actually not nostalgic.
It’s a nice spot to be in.
Playing an empty-nest dad
The empty nest didn’t mean anything to me until I went through it.
Literally when we were talking about doing this show, my son left for college back East.
And I went, Oh, I get it.
I didn’t quite know what to do with all this parenting energy.
Surprisingly, it impacts the relationship.
The kid was like cartilage between two bones.
When you take the kid out, now it’s bone on bone.
Suddenly there’s nothing insulating you.
1New York Timesbest-selling memoirCouplehoodsold over 2 million copies, followed by best-sellersBabyhoodandFamilyhood.
Julia Fordham sang his songs on the 2011 albumUnusual Suspects.
You don’t worry about as much as you used to.
A lot of life has happened to me and Helen, and that informs the show.
Reiser’s health plan
I’m on a very strict bacon and tobacco diet!
I’ll do half an hour on the elliptical, an hour if I can.
It’s demanding, but I also find it invigorating.
Perfect day off
We have a lovely home and a lot of trees.
I like to sit and do nothing, which is a challenge.
The other day I said, Let me think about this story for next week.
Then I thought,How about Idon’t?
Don’t use every time as working time.I’ve been playing the piano a lot lately my relaxing thing.
