We recently packed our bags and moved out of our house of 23 years in high-priced suburban New York and moved to the non-nosebleed-priced countryside outside of Woodstock, NY (real estate hackers will recognize this as a neat bit of […]
I was recently in Moab, Utah on a family hiking and mountain-biking trip. The desert terrain is surreal: bizarre, unearthly spires, arches, mounds, bridges, and hoodoos carved from the sandstone through millennia of erosion by wind and water. To walk […]
Over the last few months, as my mother’s health worsened (she had been suffering from dementia and complications for roughly the last 5 years), I’ve been thinking a lot about what her legacy has been, what her life meant to […]
Everyone, unfortunately, has at least one other asshole in their lives (in addition to the one they’ve been attached to since birth). Sometimes it’s a boss or a co-worker, sometimes it’s a friend or acquaintance, and sometimes it’s a relative […]
The crucial role of courage in personal freedom I don’t think of myself as a “courageous” person, at least not in a stereotypical way. We tend to think of “courage” as an attribute of firefighters, of the men and women […]
Travel is often seen as the ultimate expression of personal freedom: if you are free, then you have the freedom to go anywhere, at any time, and do anything you’d like. But I have found that it also works in […]
The New Year is a traditional time to reflect on the past, learn (at least a little) from it, and use it as raw material to make the next year even better. This is a great opportunity for each of […]