Having a Florist on Speed Dial
In my fourth decade, I’ve finally realized one of the true hacks of manhood: having a florist on speed dial.
Lifestyle
A Dad’s Morning Routine
Like most people today, I don’t have bundles of time. It is hard to balance life, work, a commute, and the hobbies I hold dear. I was struggling. So by New Year, I knew a change had to occur. Since then, I have made a whole lot of differences to my routine which have helped.
The Case for a Wood-Burning Fireplace
When looking for a new home, we all have a list of our “must haves”. For some, it’s an open-concept living room. For others, a kitchen with lots of counterspace or a location that’s a short walk to public transportation, good schools or hip bars and restaurants.
For me – as odd as it may seem for someone who’s lived in large cities all his life – it’s a wood-burning fireplace.
A Hobby for Hobby’s Sake
A strange thing happens when you begin to get paid for your talent, your relationship changes with it. Writing was once a hobby of mine, a craft I had perfected over years. Now that I’m paid to write, I treat it like another job. What people don’t tell you is that much of writing is emailing, invoicing, and thinking of what to write.
The Little Man With the Mustache
Many of us know him – It might sound crazy, but I can say that he lives in the vast majority of Italian homes - L’omino coi Baffi – “The little man with the mustache”. He is the little guy that helps us kickstart our aging corpuses in the morning. He is synonymous with the iconic Moka pot – probably the most iconic coffee brewer in the world.
“Never Let Them See You Smile”
For decades, many have been fooled into thinking that the James Bond saga is the tale of an MI6-agent, like all of us however Bond isn’t best defined by his day-job. Any long-time follower of Bond will know that the secret-agent persona is just a cover. If Bond is singularly anything, he is perhaps the last remaining member of the jet-set - that all too modernist group of well-heeled, mid-20th century international pleasure-seekers.
A Kitchen is like a Man’s Wardrobe
I am driven mad nowadays with the need for every possible kitchen scenario to be instantly and effectively treated with a gadget that can only do one specific thing. I got a targeted ad the other day for a handy-dandy countertop egg steamer. “Perfect every time!” it exclaimed at me in bold font. Well, I thought, those poor dears who bought theirs. Surely they don’t have running water and literally any sized pan.
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