Jen and I took a little break from the big city and went to Sequoia last week.
We saw pretty trees and bushes . . .
pretty trees and a mountain . . .
trees of enormous size . . .
and beauty.
We hiked.
We stopped and unpacked . . .
to rest.
We packed it all up again . [...]
I realize that summer is not the best time for product roll-out. Andy Card reminded us all of that a few years ago, and his wise words are just as true today.
All the same, President Bush’s recent commutation of Scooter Libby’s sentence, coinciding as it does with the Fourth of July holiday, provides me [...]
For as long as I can remember, I’ve had a thing for baseball. I grew up in Cooperstown, also known as “The Home of Baseball.” However disputed the origins of the game actually are, enough people in a position to judge were sufficiently convinced of a very sketchy story to credit the town [...]
A thing of beauty is a joy forever. Owning a thing of beauty, however, is perhaps more complicated.
Going to a gallery or a museum and looking at paintings, sculptures, videos, photos, etc., I often come away fulfilled and changed in a way that provokes in me great thought about aesthetics, the art market, the power [...]
Last week the weather in Southern California was unusually cold. Temperatures plummeted into the 30s at night, even into the 20s in some places. It snowed in Malibu. West-coast Whatsiters woke in the morning to frost on our giant strawberries.
Southern Californians are notoriously soft when it comes to weather. We’re just [...]