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 […]
Chronology
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 […]
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