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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 […]

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 […]

South Burma

Chasing the boy down his favorite Sonoma County descent in Annadel…

New Lambs

Meeting this year’s batch of 4H lambs out in Graton this morning

‘Tis the Season!

We welcomed the Christmas season with tree decorating and an afternoon in San Francisco. First time any of us had ever skated on the Christmas […]

Powder Days in November?!

The rain last week in Sonoma County was incredible: flooded rivers, emergency school closures, canceled sports games… But it was a cold bomb cyclone that […]

Nudge

Nudge, Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein Goodreads: Every day we make choices – about what to buy or eat, about financial investments or our children’s […]

First Snow

Making the most of the first snow of the season

Happy Halloween!

We started off this year’s Halloween week with a gracious invite next door to Sandi and Jim’s for a Halloween carving and pizza party, no […]

Red Bull Skyline

An afternoon at Twin Peaks with the boys watching the Red Bull Skyline skate comp

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