This isn’t a book review. Ron Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton biography has been out for more than a decade, and its been analyzed and dissected every which way, especially since the explosive success of the musical Hamilton. Which is how I came to it. Kinda how teen fans of the movie Twilight fell backwards into the […]
Archives for August 2017
Down to 3 Euros on an Irish Island
We were down to 3 Euros. A 1 Euro and a 2 Euro coin. We had plenty more vacation-reserved money in the bank, but we were a sea away from an ATM. We were on Inishbofin – a small lightly-inhabited island off the west coast of Ireland. Not that there was much to buy, anyway. […]
We’ve Sunk over a Quarter Million Dollars on School Tuition With College Still to Come
Growing up in the country outside Baltimore in the 1970s and ’80s, there wasn’t much thought about where you went to school. You went to the local public school. That’s where my older brothers and sister and I went (I’m the youngest of 4). Until one fateful parent-teacher conference. My parents were already growing frustrated […]
My Time in the Bathroom When I Should Have Been at My Desk
I had a former job where I spent extended periods in the bathroom. I know what you’re thinking: Poor Barnaby. Must have be suffering from urinary tract infections or chronic explosive diarrhea. Well, I wish that were the case (ummm, maybe not), but the truth is more embarrassing: I saw work as a time when […]