
Forwarding the past
Last tine around I wrote about the pain of performing triage on a lifetime of possessions and my fear that [...]

The road to Andorra
The tiny principality of Andorra inadvertently wound up in the news over a recent controversy stirred up by President Donald [...]

In Other Words
I resisted reading this book when it was first released to much fanfare in 2016. The idea of an established [...]

When paranoia goes viral
A lot of people, many of them otherwise solid and reasonable thinkers, have seized on the coronavirus to suddenly come [...]

A gift at le marché
For as long as I can remember, the Thursday morning farmer's market has been a weekly institution, a hive that [...]

Tell it slant
Last week, I took my two-year-old daughter Julia to her first dental appointment. We’ve been brushing her teeth now for [...]

A galaxy far, far away
July was the month. I used to wait for it, yearn for it, dream and daydream of it. July was [...]

All along the watchtower
What do the snowy peaks of the Himalayas have in common with the balmy waters of the South China Sea? [...]