I close my eyes and I see a change for the new year. I see myself wearing smart, black turtlenecks, cuffed slacks and Allen Edmonds Strand Cap-Toe Oxford shoes – color, Walnut. My trousers are hemmed a little short, so when I recline in the lobby...
I am in Hannibal, Mo., with my wife, Lisa, for a few days to visit my mother. Rather than stay at a chain hotel, we booked a room at the Pettibone-Reagan House, a circa 1889 Queen Anne house full of original stained glass, antiques, hand-crafted...
My wife, Lisa, and I awoke in Hannibal, Mo., this morning on the third floor of a circa 1889 mansion. To avoid staying in a typical chain hotel, we booked Reagan’s Queen Anne, a downtown bed-and-breakfast near the historic district . . .
Rarely, if ever, has the behavior of Santa’s reindeer prior to Rudolph’s first big Christmas Eve leadership role been unapologetically subjected to cultural criticism. Indeed, the whole matter has been routinely sugar-coated. I call foul. In a...
At Christmastime I should keep in my pockets a few red and green Santa Clause ornaments. I would know what must be done when I came upon trees decorated fastidiously in non-Christmassy color schemes. The following trees can offend the Christmas...
I can’t go home. I am down the street at Ragin Cajun watching a couple of football games – Rams-Bills and Bucs-Panthers – and I can’t go home. Because I have ruined Christmas. I have failed in a way more inexplicable, more devastating, than...
Since this is our first cool weekend of this season in Houston, I am making chili. The weather finally has dropped out of the 80s and into the 50s. Not exactly a Nor’easter. Not exactly maple harvest time in Vermont. Our fields have none of those...
Some of you gentle readers may remember last September’s minor saga of Martha, beloved aunt of my wife, Lisa, and the dear soul’s less than urgent efforts to get out of Tallahassee, Fla., ahead of a Category 4 hurricane. Here is a little...
Muses Bead Order Deadline Night – I enjoy this evening each year. In a few hours, the deadline will arrive for Krewe of Muses members to submit orders for beads and various other “throws” to toss from their floats in next year’s Muses Mardi...
Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi – The wedding venue is a wooden building with a lot of windows raised on high piers a block from the beach. The ceremony is being held on a deep, wrap-around porch. It is warm and humid. You can see the sandy...
A month ago, mostly out of curiosity, I bought a book written by a friend of mine, Timothy Simer, “The Coterian Retreat,” which chronicles the author’s childhood and adolescence in Hamilton, Ohio, in the 1960s and . . .
I don’t know what goes on in “powder rooms” that requires so much time, but my theory holds, and I am convinced, that ladies have secret Global Command Centers in there and the survival of the planet . . .
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