My daughter Cara hasn’t ridden in a horse show in five or six months, but today at the Fairfield County Hunt Club in Westport CT, she won best in show. She won the jumping competition and finished first and sixth and the flat events for an overall first place finish. Way to go, Cara!
In town to visit old buddy George Kalogerakis and the gang at The New York Times who will be working on our Civil War blog.
Killing time between screenings of Casino Jack and Gerrymandering at Magno Screening Room.
Cara and I spent the weekend in New England, visiting the University of New Hampshire and the University of Vermont (left), mostly for the purpose of affirming that she really hopes to be attending the University of Kentucky or Texas A&M this time next year. The ride up Friday night was stressful, taking place in …
I just received a note on Facebook from my cousin, Walter King. He and I played together when we were six or seven or so, but then his family moved to Oklahoma. I have seen him but once in the intervening time, at a family reunion at the home of our cousin Charlotte, maybe 25 …
I had the pleasure Thursday of meeting Gary Lippman, a talented writer who has written an interesting novel called Freak Hots for Sharon. We talked about his family, his home in Paris, his visits to Burning Man, the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Culver City, our mutual friend Melik Kaylin, and of course, writing. Fiction …
For ten days while Ginny and Cara were visiting the horse-rich campuses of Texas A&M and the University fo Kentucky (with a stopover in Colorado to see assorted grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins), Molly and I and the dogs played Rabbit Retrievers–chasing Steve (nee Tintin, but renamed after Steve McQueen of The Great Escape) and …
My latest assignment has me working for Mr. Joe Plumeri, the chairman and CEO of the Willis Company. Have you ever heard of Willis? Neither had I, until this relationship began. Turns out Willis is a venerable British insurance company, now approximately 175 years old. Mr. Plumeri is an astute and charismatic businessman from the …
Hey, whatever happened to thunderstorms? You remember–great, violent downpours of drenching rain, accompanied by flashed o lightning and booming thunderclaps? The horrid heat wave of the last week has left me wondering why we haven’t had one or more of those smashing storms that seemed to have almost a daily companion of nearly all the …
Recently my younger daughter, age 16, shared with her mother the following revelation. “I need new sneakers,’’ she said, “but not, you know, sneakers.’’ Confronted with this Delphic utterance, my wife, like a character in a Dan Brown novel, sought to penetrate this mystery by showing my daughter a website devoted to sneakers. “How about …