Up To Now

There are things I should have done and did not do, and there are things I did do, but should not have done. I've learned from both - and from falling in love with people who don't love back. From golf, from limerence, from family, from death, from marriage and divorce.These thirty-one essays were written the way they sound: an hour at a time, on a porch, with a cigar and something on my mind. They are not instructions. I've spent a career teaching complicated things to busy people; this is the other book - the one about sharks and eagles, smashed cake and Amalfi lemons, the houses we build and the ones that take us back.I wrote these for my friends, for my son, and for the woman I may never meet but hope to someday. It's honest recollection; I make no apologies.A collection about love, loss, second chances, and a small French bulldog who appears on nearly every page - for anyone rebuilding a life in its second half.