Happy New Year, and Cartier La Panthère

Well, firstly, while you’re reading this in 2024 I am typing it on the Friday before Christmas. Why this sudden spurt of getting things done early? Efficiency? Heck no. I have made an early New Years resolution to go through… Continue Reading

Cheap and Cheerful, for the Boys: Pinaud Clubman aftershave

I was a little too young and perhaps a little too, er, stylish to ever get too into barbershops. Now I know that I got my hair cut somewhere when I was a kid. I do remember going to one… Continue Reading

Lazy Weekend and Burkelman Fragrances

Well, the heat sort of broke here. It is still warm, but not blazing hot and not Atlanta-level humid. An old friend from work who I haven’t seen in over ten years was in town visiting and wanted to get… Continue Reading

Random Scent Crimes

It has been hot this summer — in the nineties, and I don’t have air conditioning. Call me a waaaaaahmbulance. Anyhoo, I was in the library the other day, killing time in their lovely A/C, and I was walloped by… Continue Reading

Happy Birthday To Me

Props if you have seen the bad 80’s slasher movie with the girl from “Little House on the Prairie.” So today is my 39th birthday. It’s like the 45th 39th, so it’s the Annual Patsy Stone Memorial 39th. Therefore, I… Continue Reading

In the Audience

This weekend was our literary festival and all the book nerds were in town, I love that book-nerd energy. I mostly didn’t partake – for as much time as I spend with my nose in a book, I am (weirdly?)… Continue Reading

Remember These?

This is way off topic, although I’m amused that Tom did something similar last week (I’d already written the first draft of my post – great minds thinking alike, obviously.) It was prompted by a random thought one recent evening:… Continue Reading