It’s a little odd, but there are few people on earth of whom I am fonder than my second wife Joan Crowley, to whom I was married for seven years in the 1970’s. In addition to being a great...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
To my continuing astonishment, I turned 86 this week. And I’m glad to report that it was a joy, despite the wretched Covid-19. We were up in the Berkshires most of the week, working in my lovely study, biking...
Marine Clock
One birthday, my beloved co-author and friend, the late Harry Lodge, gave me a brass marine clock which he had had restored. The face is some ten inches across and it sits on a deep brass ring. It has...
Too Hot to Trot…or Bike or Lift?
It’s hot, man. It’s been hot for days and the end is not in sight. What to do? What I am going to do right now is pile out the door in 85 degree heat and bike. Only, say,...
New York Night
I am in town to see docs. Went fine. Now what? Decide to eat at an outside restaurant. Good idea. Am dressed for rain. Excellent hat. Rain coat and so on. It rains. Harder than I’ve ever seen in...
FITFOREVER: THE HEAVY TIMBERS
Congratulations. You are embarking on a regimen that will change your life in astonishing and wonderful ways. Let’s talk about that for a minute, up front… set the darned old hook and get you committed. Then we’ll talk about...
