A month or so ago, Saintseester invited me to see/hear Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey, who was appearing at ‘seester’s university in the next town. So I took this afternoon off to attend. This is the kind of thing for which I need to find more time. Lea and I both had a fairly active … Read more
John Grisham and I don’t get along very well. I read and enjoyed A Time to Kill, The Firm, and The Pelican Brief, solely on the strength of their respective stories. Then I read another one about the tobacco industry that I found crushingly mediocre, and that was it for Mr. Grisham and me until … Read more
I pay a CPA to do our taxes every year. This is, unambiguously, a luxury purchase. Our financial lives are not that complicated, and I’m certain I’m in my accountant’s top 10 percent on profit margin. It’s something I could do in a day, particularly when the year I’m doing closely resembles the previous year, … Read more