Ruby the Pizza Guy

For my old friend Danny Rubinstein. .

This essay was first published in the literary journal Instant City in 2008, and later reprinted in a book called San Francisco Childhoods. I repost it every August 2nd in honor of my old friend.

Among the emails, phone calls, and notes congratulating us after my younger son, Reuben, was born was one from one of my oldest friends from San Francisco, ask…