What I’m about to say is nothing that should come as a great surprise to anyone who knows me, follows me or reads this newsletter: I’m a prissy boy. (Don’t everyone gasp all at once.) I like pretty things, and…

I know it’s only mid-August and we’re usually fist deep into the summer inferno, but this year feels different. Has it been hot? Yes. But not painfully so. Yesterday we even got a so-called “cold” front, and now the highs…

We are so close to summer’s finish line, y’all! While everyone else seems to have started this week, our school is out until next Wednesday. Mason will be in 11th grade, Claire’s headed into 10th, and all four of us…

Like most parents, this week has been completely consumed with back-to-school prep. Immunizations, sports physicals, school supply shopping, clothes shopping, forcing kids to read their summer reading lists, trying to schedule haircuts and, in Claire’s case, arranging for her to…

Hey, y’all! I’m sending this from Lake Charles, Louisiana, where I’m on a quick two-night getaway with my sister, niece, aunt and their spouses. It’s been exactly what you’d expect: slots, cocktails, fried things and belly laughs. The Crazy Rich…

Big news: we got a dog. I didn’t want a dog. I’ve said the words “we are not getting another animal” out loud to multiple people in the last year. I meant them. And yet… here we are. Her name…