When I said I had a “dread feeling” about getting started on A Perfect Life in the previous post, I didn’t mean that I have some silly premonition that I’m running out of time to do this. I meant that I have a real dread of the messiness, the incoherence of how I think I […]
Lichtenbergian Goal #5: begin work on A Perfect Life, my proposed description of what it’s like to live a life like mine Longtime readers may remember that last June I bought a huge handmade journal. My stated goal at the time was, and I quote: I want to write a book called A Perfect Life. […]
This past Saturday was the Annual Meeting of the Lichtenbergian Society, a top-secret organization for creative procrastinators. That is, creative men who procrastinate, not men who procrastinate creatively. We celebrate the virtues of procrastination. We are a veritable support group for procrastination. With drinking. This Annual Meeting is one of the most important evenings of […]
I have a confession. I have egregiously sinned against my resolution not to buy anything. Well, in my defense, it is June, not that I have been perfect since January, far from it, actually, but this purchase today was the kind of egregious purchase I had sworn off. Actually, the table easel-cum-paint-storage was also of […]
Another insanely beautiful day — I am running out of superlatives. Dawn at our AirBnB. A friend came out to say goodbye. (He was joined right after this photo by a larger friend, whom he promptly chased off.) And off we went. Our goal was Bryce Canyon, but here’s the thing about traveling like this: […]
Zion National Park. OMG. You can thank me for not posting three hundred photos of this place. (Any botanical gin will do.) The landscape en route was majestic, of course. You will notice that Utah is a bit greener than northern Nevada. The park itself is breathtaking. Technically it’s the Virgin River gorge, and thus […]
And we’re off![1] When my Lovely First Wife turned 60, we flew to San Francisco, rented a car, drove back across the country to New Orleans, and took Amtrak back to Atlanta. It was a very wonderful trip. Now, ten years later — you do the math — we[2] are going to drive all over […]
The problem with cleaning out one’s clutter is that if you’re not just shoveling it all out the door, if you stop and examine the material you’re purging so that you don’t throw anything away that your biographers might wish they had, that you are apt to be besieged by memories. My task was to […]
The wifi onboard a Viking River Cruise is always iffy, and this time my laptop couldn’t even see the wifi server to try to log on. (This was in addition to the new restriction of one device per passenger logged in.) So I was forced to enjoy this trip without the pleasure of sharing my […]
Before we get to my conspicuous consumption, two more photos from Monday morning as we walked to breakfast: That youth has his horns coming in. (They looked crooked; is there orthodontia for racks, or is this poor thing doomed to a life of mockery and disdain?) So, in Santa Fe, almost immediately as we walked […]