St Louis, MO and Atlanta, GAMarch 21, 2019 I apparently have my own personal driver. Or, at least it seems I do. Stepping from the lobby of the Ritz, I was for the third consecutive morning greeted by the same Lyft driver. Eric, like many residents of this venerable Midwestern city, has lived in St […]
St Louis, MO March 19, 2019 The last couple weeks we reflected how quickly our sons have grown. We acknowledged that one is now a legal adult. He can refuse to abide his parents’ restrictive regulations and, like a feisty 19th century European colony, shed the shackles (and support) of the Mother country…and try to […]
New Orleans, LA February 20, 2019 The drive from Paris to Onzain takes just under two hours, but provides a wonderful…albeit superfluous…excuse to stop for an afternoon in the delightful town of Orléans. Eighteen years ago, on an excursion among the grand châteaux of the Valois, Rita and I were almost there much longer than that. […]
Coeur d’Alene, IDJuly 27, 2018 This week we initiated coverage on Coeur d’Alene (Ticker: CDA) …with a strong Buy rating. While past results do not guarantee future performance, we had heard great things about this charming village in northern Idaho, and wanted to do our own research. We originally intended to arrive yesterday, but changed […]
Walla Walla, WAJuly 25, 2018 “I am sorry to hear that,” said the insurance agent. “Is everyone OK?” “Yes, everyone is fine. Thank you for asking. We just backed into a pole, so there is damage to the rear bumper and the door to the trunk.” “In which city and state did the accident occur?” […]
Seattle, WAJuly 21, 2018 It has been said that if a cow lies down somewhere in California, a seismologist will know it. Such is the density and sensitivity of the more than 700 seismographs scattered across that quivering state. At 5:13a on April 18, 1906, the cows did not so much lie down as fall […]
San Francisco, CA July 20, 2018 Who am I? Why am I here? – Admiral James Stockdale, 1992 Vice Presidential Debate The ship left New York Harbor in January 1846, rounded the Horn, paused at the Sandwich Islands to arm it’s cargo of Latter Day Saints, and set off to conquer the Mexican pueblo of […]
San Francisco, CA July 17, 2018 Yesterday we started ab ovo, remembering that San Francisco emerged from the earth…and from the Pacific floor. Today, we recall that it also came from the Sierra mines…and that it clings by the grace of God to its precarious perch on the edge of the world, hoping not to slide […]
San Francisco, CA July 16, 2018 God said: Let the waters that are under the heaven, be gathered together into one place: and let the dry land appear. And it was so done -Genesis 1:9 It was done…but it was not finished. From the flat dry land of the Pliocene plain, the western Sierra began […]
Nashville, TNJune 21, 2018 Life moves in cycles. Some times in long, slow Kilauean streams…at others in sudden Vesuvian bursts. Among the ebbs and flows, familiar patterns form.Seven lean years follow seven fat years. Stocks take the stairs up, and the elevator down. Leaves bud, bloom, and blush. Nations are born Stoic…and die epicurean. […]