A Walker’s Christmas in Wales
So it must have been after the birth of the simple light In the first, spinning place, the spellbound horse walking warm Out of the whinnying green stable On to the fields of praise. Dylan [...]
December 2018
June 2018
This may be my favorite picture.
My old friend, author and photographer Frank Spinelli, really takes great pictures. He just got my book and wanted to let me know how he feels about it.
November 2017
You Can Build a Secret Army. Or You Can Be a Dodo. Choose Carefully.
Once, at a dinner party in Dallas, I met a man who had grown up in Yorkshire in the 50s. He told me about a Friday night in 1962, when he was a 16-year-old working [...]
September 2017
The Art of the Deal with the Devil
When stories first started coming out in 2014 about Uber executives threatening journalists who criticized the company, it seemed like a case of bad crisis management. A VP in the company said something stupid [...]
May 2017
You are what you read: The Spectacle of Let by Sam Zamarripa
It is not often that a new writer appears and causes the more established names on the bookshelf to shift to make room. In recent years, my own bookshelf has been transformed by the writing [...]
December 2015
Have Yourself A Merry Little Bookshelf
You are what you read because what you read changes your mind. Maybe not all at once and maybe not in ways you see clearly without the benefit of time. And then sometimes, yes, all [...]