Month: July 2025

I’ve been woefully AWOL recently, renovating the family Fish Camp up on the marsh in Darien, Georgia. It’s been terribly hot but rewarding except for the nagging guilt about being absent from these pages. Though my morning reading has been cut short, I still get enough news about the continuing atrocities of American public life…

For most of my life I’ve taken the meaning of the 4th of July for granted—a time for grilling burgers, drinking beer and hanging out with family and friends. Why not? Year after year independence day celebrated the success of the United States as a country where citizens were free, the economy boomed and life…

It’s been awhile since I last shared my thoughts about the state of the union: much has been going on, including a visit by my son and family, continuing renovation at the family fish camp and, of course, lots of tennis leading up to Wimbledon which has just started. It’s times like this when I’m…