Archive - Hopscotching to Hell

The Traveling Wedding Ring

Every family has one story that sounds like it should begin, “You won’t believe this, but...”

Aug 24 • David Mayhew

David Copperfield's Greatest Illusion

Many years ago, I was an 18-year-old freshman living in NYU’s Weinstein Hall on University Place.

Aug 5 • David Mayhew

July 2026

The Afterlife of a Wisecrack

I’ve long been a devoted admirer of the Algonquin Round Table, that legendary decade-long gathering of New York writers who treated conversation as a…

Jul 26 • David Mayhew

The Other Life of 130 West 56th Street

In 1973, at seventeen, I fell for two legends I was much too young to have met.

Jul 11 • David Mayhew

The Academy Award Winner in the Tattered Muumuu

Many years ago, I found myself in the back seat of a car heading from Manhattan to Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

Jul 10 • David Mayhew

The Wedding Hearse

Every family has a few stories that improve with age.

Jul 2 • David Mayhew

June 2026

WELCOME TO HOPSCOTCHING TO HELL

If you’ve arrived here expecting fire, brimstone, and eternal damnation, I’m afraid you’ll be disappointed.

Jun 26

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