Open Bar: Sunday Family Dinner
Blustery winds buffet the expansive windows as snow piles up [...]
Open Bar: Ascetics and Aesthetics
The basic requirements for happiness are within reach: the offering [...]
Open Bar: Coffee, Consumption, and Change
As we trod through the myriad stalls of Borough Market, [...]
Open Bar: Hunky Dory and Other Illusions
Approaching slumber with an exhausted body And a full brain, [...]
Open Bar: No Headphones In The Hot Tub
Ensconced as we are in mountain suburbia, perhaps we have [...]
Open Bar: Nothing Matters Except What Matters
We are on a gargantuan rock, hurtling at speeds that [...]
Open Bar: Seeking Safe Harbor
This Valley will keep you young, if it doesn’t kill [...]
Open Bar: Empathy And Its Limitations
At the risk of concerning my mother by reciting good [...]
Open Bar: The Dishwasher Conundrum
My friend Johnny, besides being a lights-out barista, compassionate human, [...]
Open Bar: Rum for Reparations
To the extent that this country still has any luster, [...]