travel Travel Story: There and Back Again Driving through Texas is a fascinating and frustrating thing for a photographer, even an occasional, highly amateur photographer like me. Any one-lane country road has enough visual interest to fill one of those coffee table books on Weird Trees or Sexy Rust or Cattle With Huge Horns. Small towns have
Pooposcopy: Everything I Know February 2024, I coined the term “pooposcopy” as I thought it was funny, and it made it easier to talk about what was looming on my horizon. I got so used to the term that I kept forgetting what the real word was. I’ve forgotten now. Maybe it’ll
memoir Ask Me About My Watch: A £500 Lesson in Memory & Grief Ask me about my Armani watch. You might as well; I’m going to tell you about it anyway. In Texas, with an English accent, I can just about get away with such incredibly obnoxious behavior. “This is a £500 watch,” I’ll begin, being way more vulgar than I
Medical Keep Medicine Weird "Keep Austin Weird" is either a way of life or an effective way to market a city that desperately wants to let everyone know it is in Texas but not necessarily of Texas. Like Austin self-proclaimed title of being Live Music Capital of the World, the idea that
Medical The Big Snip As humans with only a finite amount of time on this round blue ball, we measure out our days in many different ways: Birthdays, obviously; but also, relationships, jobs, vacations. One of my milestones is medical procedures. For me, there is the time before my vasectomy and then the time
Underfoots The Ballad of Jordan Underfoot If you’ve never had a dog before, adding one to the family unit will almost certainly completely restructure your life. Once you're all settled into the new rhythm you’ve negotiated together, the next thing to do is . . . to get another dog, right? Because who wants consistency?
Underfoots Featured The Ballad of John Henry S. was a cat person; I have never cared for anything larger than a hamster, yet here we were, at the back end of 2015, in an animal-rescue shelter, looking to adopt/rescue a dog. I may have foolishly said at one point in our pre-search that pugs were weird
