Bear Attack & Bimini Islands
2,524 Words. 10 Minute Read.
We didn’t even know how to get the damn thing out of the harbor, but cigars were lit, Barometer Soup by Jimmy Buffett was playing, and come hell or high water we’d be chasing Hemingway’s ghost in the Bimini’s. We had several gallons of rum, sundries for two weeks (or so we thought), and two pistols with ammunition.
A Lesson in Racquet Sports
2,256 Words. 9 Minute Read.
I was at a Christmas party at the Racquet & Tennis Club in New York where I befriended an older gentleman. We found ourselves sitting fireside in the library chatting about squash. We got along famously and ended up enjoying steaks and bourbon at the Harvard Club – one of those quintessential New York nights.
24 Hours in Mississippi
1,365 Words. 5 Minute Read.
I’ve visited Hemingway’s grave in Sun Valley and Hunter Thompson’s fortified compound in Aspen, but Rowan Oak is in a league of its own.
Choice Places to Smoke a Cigar, I
833 Words. 3 Minute Read.
Atlanta, Half Moon Bay, San Francisco.
A Day in the Life of Haberdasher
793 Words. 3 Minute Read.
It wasn’t uncommon to have an old stockbroker colleague wake up on my apartment couch on a weekday morning because I invited everyone to everything I was invited to – and there were a lot of invitations as a Man of the Cloth.