My company shut down again between Christmas and the New Year, forcing employees out on the street to take some time off with family. Travel can be difficult in December back to wintry and desolate New England, but I wanted to vacate somewhere. Brother Ray just started his sabbatical from …
A dear friend from my Boston days and one of the stalwart pillars of our Pop Science camp at Burning Man suddenly died this summer. Diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in his thirties, he had beaten back the illness for a decade with a series of surgeries. A return of the …
Along with the rest of San Francisco’s glitterati, Greg decamped this summer to Europe, specifically to a little rental place in Berlin. He suggested we meet somewhere on the Continent for a week’s vacation. Trouble is, Europe groans during July with crowds, costs, and cooking heat. We bandied about ideas …