American Nomads, Richard Grant Made me want to hop back in The Tank! Goodreads: Fascinated by the land of endless horizons, sunshine, and the open […]
Chronology
Healdsburg Home Track Meet
Last home track meet of the season! Fun to watch all the kids out there giving it their all… Pretty impressive to see one of […]
The 2025 Sugar Bowl Pond Skim
One last weekend of the ski season for us. No way we were going to miss the Sugar Bowl pond skim for two years in […]
The Art of Risk
The Art of Risk, Richard Harris Goodreads: Are free-solo climbers, underwater cave explorers and big-wave surfers crazy … or cautious? How do soldiers and fighter […]
Shearing Time
Stan, Kenny and Betsy enjoying a morning at Max and Lilia’s salon…
Invested
Invested, Charles Schwab Goodreads: In Invested, Charles Schwab, founder of The Charles Schwab Corporation, recounts the obstacles he encountered starting his fledgling company in the […]
Diving Taveuni and the Rainbow Reef
Unlike driving a car or flying a plane, there’s no age limit associated with SCUBA diving. Max had been wanting to join me on a […]
The Garden Island
Twenty years ago when Lisa and I got engaged we decided to get married on neutral ground somewhere between Adelaide and San Francisco. So we […]
Adelaide
Last year we received news of the St Mark’s centenary gala dinner to be held on March 15, 2025. Given Lisa and I met at […]
Elon Musk
Elon Musk, Walter Isaacson Love him or hate him, Musk has likely been the most influential single person of our generation. Probably multiple genrations. Isaacson’s […]
Spring Weather at Bull Pine
A magic evening of spring weather watching the sun set and cooking dinner over an open fire up at Bull Pine with the Munselles. Views […]
President’s Day at Powder Haus
Another atmospheric river blessed us in the days before President’s Day long weekend, and unlike the warm temps that came with the atmospheric rivers a […]
Missoula
Missoula, Jon Krakauer I’m always a big fan of Krakauer’s writing and this was no exception. Pretty sobering dive into an epidemic of rapes at […]
Our Last Valentine’s Dance!
Lisa and I realized last night that this is our last Alexander Valley School Valentine’s Dance. It’s flying by too fast! Wild Man and the […]
Atmospheric Rivers X 3
Since the storm we had on January 3 during our stay at Powder Haus for Christmas the Sierras (and Northern California in general) hadn’t seen […]
Greenlights
Greenlights, Matthew McConaughey Goodreads: I’ve been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries […]
3 Shades of Blue
3 Shades of Blue, James Kaplan Goodreads: From the author of the definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, the story of how jazz arrived at the […]
Powder Haus Christmas
Two weeks in the mountains at Powder Haus for Christmas and New Year
American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15
American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15, Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson Goodreads: In the 1950s, an obsessive firearms designer named Eugene Stoner invented […]
Alexander Valley School Christmas 2024
Truly the end of an era: our last year with a child performing in the AVS Christmas performance. But all the teachers told us last […]
