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
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
Must we ‘be safe?’
It’s depressing this entire country finds it acceptable to part ways on a chipper note of menace
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
The car seat cartel
Nothing can totally protect you from Big Safety
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
Drinking during pregnancy just isn’t the same
The pleasure of life before was the open horizons of drink
Why have parties suddenly gotten good?
Even an old grump like me has been having a good time
Remembering George Eastman
Two decades after the camera tycoon entered the last darkroom, Henry Clune published a thinly veiled roman-à-clef about the morose magnate
Wednesday
New York is a people pleaser’s hell
The city is a psychological assault course, an emotional minefield, for people like me who are chronically apologetic
Why BDSM is innately conservative
S&M people might look like perverted children of the Sixties. But for all their weird ways this crowd is the natural ally of conservatives
Remembering John Gardner
The late novelist’s wound was more gaping than most
Tuesday
The difference between children and tattoos
When did it become socially acceptable to discuss the state of another man’s testicles?
Friday
Danny Bonaduce’s guide to survival
Whether it’s the perils of child stardom, booze, drugs or relationship issues, the sixty-four-year-old has been there and back again
Tuesday
The barbarism of Canada’s euthanasia regime
When society denies the objective value of human life, no one is safe
