Mike SnyderTen years after a terrible loss, a digital smile yields a moment of graceJanuary 28, 20224 min read·Jan 28, 2022----
Mike SnyderAfter 41 years, a task completed yields a sense of reconnectionOur guide squinted, trying to make out the names scrawled on the diagram she held as we followed her across the grassy expanse of Seaside…7 min read·Nov 16, 2021----
Mike SnyderThe promise, and the mystery, of Christmas in quarantineOnce upon a time it was childish excitement, rather than grown-up anxiety, that kept me awake on the nights leading to December 25. I was…6 min read·Dec 24, 2020--1--1
Mike SnyderNorman: A belated elegyAs a warm spring gave way to a hot summer in 1977, the bodies of two 23-year-old men — one Latino, one Black — were fished from the muddy…18 min read·Sep 3, 2020----
Mike SnyderTwo jackets. Two journeys.I clipped the leash to the dog’s harness and followed her to the door before remembering that it was a cool evening. Teeny, a 4-pound…7 min read·May 27, 2020--1--1
Mike SnyderLife in limbo, then and nowIn the wee hours of a winter morning in 1997, I lay on my living room sofa, not sleeping. I had moved from the bed I shared with my wife…5 min read·May 7, 2020----
Mike SnyderA love letter to journalists covering the coronavirusFive months after retiring from daily journalism, I’m sitting on the sidelines as my former colleagues hurl themselves into the story of a…4 min read·Apr 1, 2020--1--1
Mike SnyderA deadly virus has me in its sights. I’m trying to duck.Day after day of solitude leads the mind in strange directions. As I prepared for bed the other night, it struck me that a public health…5 min read·Mar 23, 2020--1--1
Mike SnyderA dream. A disagreement. A death.I steered the car along a winding country road that gradually became narrower and more rutted. Beside me sat an older man, a tall fellow…3 min read·Feb 18, 2020----
Mike SnyderLacing up the Silver SneakersI stood behind a straight-back chair, my arms hanging loosely at my sides. I wore gray sweatpants, a black T-shirt and well-worn Nikes…4 min read·Feb 3, 2020----