The joy of experiencing the Mountain West on horseback
I believe in going horseback for as far and as long as I can
Life
Monday
Why cats are a vintner’s best friend
For many vintners, cats have become their favorite unsung but essential partners in pest control and free PR
Wednesday
The ins and outs of fatherhood
Our tolerance for panic blossoms alongside our progeny
Gazing at the eclipse in Walt Whitman’s perfect silence
Is it possible to love a science, or any branch of knowledge, despite one’s abysmal ignorance thereof?
Should elders be respected?
For the American people, the past is either dead or it is bunk, and the present, being unreformed and highly unsatisfactory, leaves them with only the future to believe in
Tuesday
The VR and AR arms race
Virtual worlds contain very real gold mines
Must we ‘be safe?’
It’s depressing this entire country finds it acceptable to part ways on a chipper note of menace
The death of good conversation
Ours is an age that prefers the battle of ideas and opinions rather than pleasure of discovering the mysteries of another person
The story of Vince Maney
That’s all he played, one single game, and it took him almost a century to get credit for it
A canyon caper
Overhead the Milky Way was beginning to show, faintly emergent from the celestial depths, the existential wastes of eternity
Sunday
My initiation into breastfeeding
My swollen chest looked like a 1981 Playboy centerfold caricature
My biggest regrets
Mine are for things undone, unmade, untold. They’re hardly earth-shattering, but still…
The age of mass revenge
While this cycle of resentment, revenge and reaction is nothing new under the sun, its ubiquity seems historically unprecedented
Thursday
Meeting Eric Ripert, chef of America’s best restaurant
‘I like to be living the life of the restaurant of Le Bernardin’
The car seat cartel
Nothing can totally protect you from Big Safety
My friends keep dumping me
It’s not a conscious or cruel dumping — it’s the dump of indifference
An introduction to presidential grave-hunting
Pat Weissend’s interest in US presidents was sparked in his boyhood by little effigies his aunt gave him
The digital habit
The vast majority of people neither living in what they call ‘real time’ nor experiencing life and the world itself at first hand
Tuesday
Does boxing still matter?
MMA has overtaken the sport in the public mind
Drinking during pregnancy just isn’t the same
The pleasure of life before was the open horizons of drink