High Fidelity

Most holidays have only one Mood Setting: Fun. Christmas, the Fourth of July, Groundhog Day—these holidays don’t depend on your relationship status, they’re just moments where everyone pauses to celebrate, appreciate, and render themselves more or less unconscious via feasting (well, maybe not so much Groundhog Day, but we’re working on it). Valentine’s Day, on […]

It’s beach reading time. And since I know you don’t want to bring your shiny new hardbacks anywhere near the seaweed and beached jellyfish, I hereby declare the next three months the Summer of Paperback Favorites. While I can’t promise my compilation’s handy acronym (SPF) is accidental, I can assure you I’ve selected several of the […]

Several summers ago, I rented a cabin in the Catskills for a weekend. It was perched on a hill in middle of nowhere—the nearest grocery store was 15 miles away and staffed by very suspicious locals—and decorated in high rustic style, with musty wool blankets and lamps made out of antlers. Best of all, it had a record […]

Music—varied and endless—is such a part of our lives, most of us barely notice its presence on a conscious level. In our earbuds, in our cars, at home, and at work, music is the common thread that ties all of us together. We’re all constantly curating a soundtracks of our lives. The writers of these […]