happy "no new things" day 2026!

preface: if you’re curious in the evolution of this experiment/thought/practice, here are the last 5 posts about it: 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019.

uncle gathering #1: insights

so i’m just home from spending a fun lil night out at the inaugural fall gathering of uncles! a fun detail: it was a party of one! i was gonna go to the saloon but it was a beautiful evening so i got a cocktail at cambridge common and sat outside.

book review: love in a f*cked up world by dean spade

a few thoughts on addiction: alcohol, marijuana, tobacco, texting

since december, i’ve been thinking a lot about addiction. a few reasons:

baby brunch

my friend, ben golder, came into town to see friends and hang out with me for my birthday a couple weeks ago. during the trip he told me about this amazing thing he tried this year for the first time called baby brunch.