The Barbershop

Cities always import more resources than they can produce. That's kind of the definition of a city.

There’s a type of guy, sometimes they're Silicon Valley guys, sometimes they're just tech bros, sometimes they're environmentalists who have lost their minds

He seems pleased that he’s protected me and mine. Or maybe ours.

Here, then, is my homecoming of the imagination: to hold the past bright in memory, and to love also the saplings and the weeds of my exile.

So I'm wondering where the spirit of the American pioneer, where the culture of the can-do man has gone?

This year I’m renewing my commitment to the sentence.

Older and wiser, I have long learned that for all the times I wanted to visit far-away places, there is no place like home.

The reflection looked like a vintage motion picture, only without those stilted movements.

No question about it: For writers like me, who would like nothing more than to do our own writing and thinking with dignity and intellectual honesty, it’s becoming harder to write—at least…

However, the widespread association of these events with the closing of the Hotel Harrington has overshadowed the preceding history of the hotel

Because of coffee’s popularity, coffee shops can draw people together like very few other modern institutions.

We are desperately in need of a collective vision of what it means to love our homes.