RIP Tony Horwitz

Ah damn, I didn’t know Tony Horwitz died yesterday. I loved his writings and none more than Confederates in the Attic, an absolutely brilliant book. If you haven’t read it, I encourage you to. From Slate.com: Tony Horwitz’s Greatest Book, Confederates in...

A Blizzard, 40+ years Later

In retrospect, I can’t recall when it started to snow. I suppose I could look it up but it doesn’t matter all that much. It may have been snowing as I trudged to my bus stop on the corner of Irving and Blackstone Boulevard for school that morning or it might have...