At 7:08am on Friday the sun will rise over the Atlantic, officially starting 2010. As has become my tradition, I plan to be at Haulover Beach to watch it it come up. Everyone is invited to join me, although I know it is awfully damned early, particularly for a post-party morning. Still, there is something [...]
An entire cottage industry has developed around end-of-year retrospectives, and this year there have even been end-of-decade round-ups. As is usually the case, some are worthwhile, most are not, and all tell us more about the writer than about the topic at hand. Still, there is an inexorable tidal pull toward writing such a thing, [...]
In which our hero faces a new and uncertain future.