Just watched a couple of back to back episodes of Downton Abbey, to see what all the fuss was about, and now I’m well and truly hooked. I’m going to have to buy the whole thing. Michelle Dockery gives a captivating performance as Lady Mary Crawley, and I get a […]
This is a photo of Xena the Warrior Princess and Mr. and Mrs. Dudgiebobo, two knitted people given to my daughter by a wonderful woman in our writing group, the late Mary Molner, author of The Stone Bee and other stories. Sarah named them herself when she was a baby. […]
I’m reading The Magnificent Hoax by E. Phillips Oppenheim after just finishing Up the Golden Ladder. I love this guy because of the worlds he take me to — London clubs, resorts in Monaco, country dinner parties — all in the thirties. You definitely get the slice of life that […]
Who Moved My Cheese by Spencer Johnson (1998) is like a fly in amber. The question is not, “What is it?” but rather, “How did it get there?” This book is used by hundreds and hundreds of big corporations: BF Goodrich, Bristol Meyers, Citibank, Exxon, General Motors, Georgia Pacific, Greyhound, Hewlitt […]
I’ve been hiking every day instead of every other day, up Mt. Sugarloaf or North Sugarloaf. One day I did both.
This view from the summit of North Sugarloaf Mountain is brought to you by Steve’s Clumsy Videos.
Had a wonderful time on a trail ride with my friends Catherine and Star Stryker at the Mt. Toby Stables. The forecast was for snow and freezing rain, but the weather turned out fine. We also met Napoleon, a miniature horse, and Jetta, a four-month-old filly.
When I was a lad at boarding school, I used to sing in an impromptu singing group in Corky’s dorm composed of myself, John Alsop, now a jurist in Maine, and Walter Russell Mead, then an incredibly bright young man from Chapel Hill, now an internationally known author and pundit […]
The following is my letter to the New York Post in response to my friend Walter’s sentencing. It’s too difficult to get a letter in the Times. But, mark my words, the Times will ultimately end up covering this story. To the editor: Well they’ve done it. The members of […]
