Blog Archives: September 2020

As many of you probably know, Richard, Emma and I recently returned home from a year in England, in what was, essentially, a protracted exercise in significantly changing how we live. We traded our 2,400 square foot American home, with its modern conveniences and sizable backyard, for an 1,100 square foot semi-detached house with a postage-stamp garden. I spent the year doing laundry in a tiny washing machine located in the kitchen. I hung our wet clothes on a line in the garden or – if it was rainy – on the wooden laths of an overhead ...

At the start of August, I spent a week in Ocean City, NJ. In this pandemic, uprising summer, it was a much-needed respite - a chance to poke my head, turtle-like, out of the shell of my house. A chance to take a week off from reading the news. A chance to breathe. A chance to be with people I love. In a pandemic summer, that doesn’t come without risk. Cathy and I shared the first floor of a house with a few friends - in a town that’s a people-magnet when the weather is hot. We felt confident about sharing the space with our friends, but ...