Cool fall evenings about an hour before sunset when the sky is clear might be some of the greatest hours on earth.

One day our grandchildren will ask us where were we when the COVID-conscious Western Massachusetts lesbian bar, Last Ditch closed.

Returned home from a chilly walk with the kids to the wonderful smell of homemade granola my wife has been baking in the oven. The whole house smells wonderful.

Shots taken on afternoon walks in the woods with the older kids

A piece I wrote a couple years ago musing on the difference between a cottage and a cabin. Shot the photos at my uncle's cabin in Northern Michigan. It's like an incredible time warp. Read the full piece to see some incredible shots inside.

Four year old daughter was trying to carve the top off a little tabletop pumpkin last night with a pair of kid scissors and I didn’t think she would be able to do it but she did it and was thrilled she did it and so she dug out the seeds and then she and my wife roasted them up today. 🎃

What childhood should be

Omg yours does too?!? It’s so weird and funny isn’t it? Haha, that movie is so good!

I record Pleasant Peninsula Podcast outside every week all year, rain, shine, or snow. This week, outside in the lovely scenes of autumn, I discuss the glorious fragrance of fallen leaves and a 2 acre island in the middle of Lake Michigan.

Winter can be dreamy too.

🤣

When you are a child you rarely think of your mortality, all those accidents happen to other people, you are invincible and will be fine, and it’s naive and clueless and it’s beautiful.

The stuff that makes the real money is the slop. The higher brow or intellectual stuff is never the money maker. It’s true all across the board. Companies or people have portfolios and it’s the mass appeal stuff that brings in the money and then the legacy brands - the high touch high culture brands - barely break even etc… This is just the nature of how the world is.

I think that is absolutely true. There is something about the overly restricting nature of everything in that middle space. I also think the entire world basically revolving around purchasing plays an interesting role. For example “the mall” as a place. It’s based on spending money. The only space to be “free” (after being dropped off) is commercial.

🤣🤣🤣

Yes. “Fun” that can only be purchased and activities which can only be organized. I believe it was @Empty_America who said that for life as a kid in the suburbs you live kind of as a prince always being carted around but adult life trying to recreate it is much worse which explains a certain amount of the malaise on here.

I definitely think that suburbs and other in-between areas are not a natural environment and are, ultimately, very bad environments to raise kids in with weird downstream effects (many of which we see here on X). We live in the hinterland.