WEEKEND IN TUCSON
The best part of my trip to Austin was that it set me up for a visit to my brother Matt and his smart, pretty daughters Michelle and Megan. Matt has lived in Arizona for almost two decades, but I have never visited him. I had a great time catching up with him and his …
TALKING IN TEXAS
Many thanks to the Civil War Roundtable of Austin, Texas, for inviting me to talk about Will Cushing at their meeting last Thursday. I had a great time: the talk went well, the crowd was large and friendly, and they bought a lot of books. In addition, the group was very hospitable. They bought me …
THAT ELAINE’S CROWD
Elaine’s was certainly in its heyday in the early eighties when I worked for John Scanlon, but, odd to say, he was never part of that scene. I wonder why–everyone who hung there was someone with whom he would have aspired to associate. Over the years, I made a couple of appearances there–one or two …
LITERARY LAWRENCE
My friend and client Lawrence Levy flew in from Palo Alto and treated me to a delicious lunch at Milos os West 55th Street while we discussed his exciting project, To Pixar and Back, his memoir of his days as COO of Pixar.
A DAY WITH THE DEAD
My friend Paul Buckhout invited me to tour Brooklyn’s venerable Green-Wood Cemetery with him. How could I say no?
SEPTEMBER BASEBALL!
Thanks to my pal David Jensen, I got to attend the Yanks-Mets game at Citi Field last Sunday night. What a lot of fun we had! The night was perfect, the seats were great, and the crowd was congenial. What we ended up seeing was in game in two parts: six innings of a tight …
HAMPSHIRE HOLIDAY
Thanks to the religious devotion of our Jewish brethren, Ginny had off four days in a row, so we headed off to New Hampshire for a scenic-historical holiday. On Day One, we saw some aging, full-of-character industrial cities: funky Nashua, where we ate at a very nice Irish pub and saw their august Civil War …
THE BUCKET LIST
By the way, I have the cover story in Smithsonian this month, “The 21st Century Life List.” It was great fun to write and a pleasure to learn about these amazing places. “It crackles with energy,” the Los Angeles Times kindly says. The photographs are breathtaking.