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Loving Bookish Seattle Even Before I Arrive
People buy more books, per capita, in Seattle than anywhere in the United States – one and half times the national average. Although I cannot vouch that they actually read more (since they’re also busy spending more than twice the … Continue reading
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Tagged AIA Seattle, Elliott Bay Book Company, Rem Koolhaus, Seattle, Seattle Times
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Dream Cycle: The Dreams of Boys, the Dreams of Men
Last week I posted an essay about my dreams for the world, coincident with Martin Luther King Day. Serendipitously, the next day my niece emailed family and friends soliciting dreams for her seven-year-old son. My nephew’s been waking from bad … Continue reading
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Another Check off the Bucket List
I’m no fan of the term ‘bucket list’. It elevates the idea of peak experience, and thus diminishes the reality of life in the moment. Still, among guys my age (emphasis on GUYS) it’s a topic that comes up time … Continue reading
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Tagged Architecture by Moonlight, bucket list, cycling, Haiti, New York Times, Twitter
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I Have a Dream – 2015
On this Martin Luther King Day I have a dream that today this nation, this world, will rise up and live out the true meaning of the creed that all men are created equal. That we abandon labels that divide – white … Continue reading
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I Hate This Ad
I opened the cover of this Sunday’s New York Times Magazine and there she was – again. A young woman in casual clothes holding a cup of coffee, her hand pressed against an expanse of floor-to-ceiling glass, overlooking the sea. … Continue reading
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Tagged BNY Mellon, New York Times Magazine, Virginia Woolf, wealth management
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Happy New Year
I guess 2015 is going to be the year of finding beauty in unlikely places. After cleaning up from a terrific New Year’s eve party, I opened the dishwasher to discover that plastic wine glasses suffer from the heat. But … Continue reading
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Cooking Lessons
It is a truth universally acknowledged that I am a single man in possession of a good fortune who wants for nothing. Like many eighteenth century characters my fortune is measured in income rather than wages. Although I don’t possess … Continue reading
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Tagged cooking, cooking humor, housemate, Jane Austen, Mr. Darcy
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One Hundred Years Ago Tonight
A poem by my friend, Bertrand Fay: | | My name is John Wiggand My mates, good lads all, call me Wiggers Countrymen, my fam’ly for generations Know the woods and fields of Hertfordshire My Ma is gone. My Da … Continue reading
Clinical Test Reject
Over the past year, I’ve offered myself up as guinea pig to a variety of clinical tests. I have a keen interest in neuroscience in general and Alzheimer’s disease in particular, so most of my inquiries have been brain-related. I … Continue reading
Boston Globe Magazine – Raising Roofs to Sweeping Dirt
Architecture by Moonlight has officially launched! Many thanks to Susanne Althoff, Francis Storrs, Hans Schulz, and the Boston Globe Magazine for publishing an excerpt; New England Mobile Book Fair, Book Ends, Harvard Bookstore, and Calamus for hosting readings, Joe McDonough … Continue reading
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