The Journal, filed by hand
- Essay
- Note
- Dispatch
- Rant
- Review
- Recipe
- Fragment
- Haiku
- List
Everything, newest first
One chronological record. A two-line fragment sits beside a long essay without apology. If you would rather wander by subject, the Index is the way in.
- Note
Aperol at Four, Scotch at Midnight
The same day can hold a bright spritz in the afternoon and a dark dram at the end. Both are honest.
- Dispatch Torino, Italy
Notes from Torino
A dispatch from a city that keeps its best parts under the arcades and behind unmarked doors.
- Rant
The Problem with Restaurant Lighting
A controlled rant about dining rooms lit like operating theaters and the food that suffers under them.
- Review Torino, Italy
An Old Hotel Bar in Torino
A sample review of a bar that understands the difference between service and hospitality.
- Recipe Tampa, Florida
A Ragù That Wants the Afternoon
Written the way a person actually cooks, not the way a food blog pretends to. Sample recipe.
- Haiku
A Small Haiku About Garlic
- Fragment
Before Coffee
- Essay
On Solitude Without Misanthropy
Wanting to be alone and liking people are not opposites. An essay leaning on a little Taoism.
- Note New Smyrna Beach, Florida
What Surfing Leaves Behind
You can stop surfing and still keep the thing it taught you about waiting.
- Essay Tampa, Florida
Island Boy, Opera Suit
On dressing for two lives at once, and why the combinations never needed explaining.
- List
Le Cose Italiane Certamente
An unranked, unreasonable list of Italian things worth defending. Sample content.
- Note
A Small Script for a Quiet Morning
A short technical note, mostly an excuse to show what a code block looks like here.