Chronology

Taipei

It was an early morning arrival at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport on Friday. 4:45AM to be exact. But my body clock was still on California […]

Homecoming

Pretty ladies off to homecoming!

Going Infinite

Going Infinite, Michael Lewis While I will admit some of Lewis’ writing really annoys me – like the egregious cherry-picking-to-make-a-story of The Premonition and rehash […]

Patriot

Patriot: A Memoir, Alexei Navalny Having family heritage from a former USSR country made the first two thirds super interesting for me personally… And reading […]

Eleanor and Matilda Visit California

Max Brown – the grandson of my old man’s best friend from high school – dropped in on us during the last two summers as […]

What We Owe The Future

What We Owe the Future, William MacAskill Certainly some interesting sections, but MacAskill definitely lost me in the depths of his philosophizing a number of […]

Last Week of Summer

Crazy to think summer is almost over… Seems like only yesterday we were winding up with school and getting ready to head to Idaho for […]

We Did OK, Kid: A Memoir

We Did OK, Kid: A Memoir, Anthony Hopkins Goodreads: Born and raised in Port Talbot – a small Welsh steelworks town – amid war and […]

The Bomber Mafia

The Bomber Mafia, Malcolm Gladwell Goodreads: In The Bomber Mafia, Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a […]

Peril Sky

Back in 2021 at the beginning of our tour through Alaska I managed to finagle a seat on the boat with Fish Happens and its […]

Happy Independence Day!

Wild Man and I headed up to the mountains last week in advance of the Independence Day long weekend, Finn Cullerton and his fam were […]

False Alarm

False Alarm, Bjorn Lomborg Goodreads: Hurricanes batter our coasts. Wildfires rage across the American West. Glaciers collapse in the Artic. Politicians, activists, and the media […]

Open Water Diver

Last year when we dove on the Rainbow Reef Maxie got himself hooked on SCUBA, so for his most recent birthday we gave him a […]

Summer Begins at Powder Haus

It was so nice to get back up to the mountains after being away for seven weeks. Shoulder season up in the mountains is a […]

The Young McClain Wedding

I remember meeting Savannah when she was younger than Max is now, shortly after I moved to the US back at the end of 2000. […]

Solito

Solito, Javier Zamora Truly a harrowing story (with a good ending), but to be honest it got somewhat repetitive. And a significant chunk of the […]

SCUBA Pool Day

Six weeks of after school study, a day in the pool down in Marin today, and now he’s ready for the ocean!

The 2026 HFFCF Fair

It’s that time of year again! With Wild Man and I up in the mountains for the winter it felt like the fair arrived very […]

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