Year: 2024

  • Project 2025

    Nope, it’s not the Project 20251 you may have heard about … it’s what we’ve been calling the home improvements we’ve started to schedule early next year. Hurricane Helene2 dropped a big oak tree on our house back in late September and we’ve started working through some of the repairs. The tree damaged just enough…

  • High School

    The older I get, the more it feels like high school… I’ve used that as an expression for at least the last fifteen years. I found myself saying it again at lunch the other day during a discussion about an upcoming fundraising event and I wrote it down in my notes. For whatever reason, I…

  • Tastes

    This is an essay about how I am the sole arbiter of all that is fine and high culture in this world as evidenced by my seemingly endless essays on my personal consumption habits. Or… are they learned, is opinion easier than evidence, what is the paradox of tastes? I’ll try to write it as…

  • The Purple Party

    I normally like to brag about how little spam and unsolicited text messages I receive, but unfortunately, this hasn’t been the case in the last couple of weeks.

  • Charlietown

    We spent the first week of the year in Charleston, South Carolina.  It’s always nice for us to spend time there because we’ve got friends and family there and it’s where my wife and I met twenty years ago 1. Technically speaking we spent most of our trip out on Folly Beach with a little…

  • Twenty Twenty-three

    I’ve written up a couple of years in review essays and since I like the process, here I am doing it again. I like the title because it implies some sort of 20/20 hindsight which is most likely not the case. My 2022 review was fairly chin-up given some of the circumstances. Thinking about it…