Of Tea and Barbarians
I like making tea. There is a comfortable ritual to the process: put the kettle on, then tea bag and milk in the cup, wait for the...
Reinventing Myself
Take risks. Fail. Succeed. Live. Twenty-nine years ago I sat on a beach in Belize, stoned and broke. I had a messy past and no future. I...
On Living and Dying
I was fortunate to spend a few days last week visiting an old friend. It is one of those friendships in which you may not see one another...
A Tale of Two Runs
First a caveat. The moral of this story isn’t work hard and succeed. That is utter nonsense, simple propaganda to persuade workers there...
Conservatism in the Midst of Madness
“To be conservative, then, is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to...
Hope for the Future
“Cut your hair, you look like a girl.” “Your music is just noise, it’ll make you deaf.” “You have it easy nowadays, we had to work for...
