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Blog From the Gulf Memoirs of a Renaissance Man The Adventures of Adi and David

Luck Be a Lady

You Had To Lose Everything You Were Holding Nobody expects a yield sign to be the thing that splits a life into before and after. Ours did. It was a Saturday night in March, the eve of St. Patrick’s Day, 2024. The town was celebrating. People were drinking. We were just driving. I yelled, “STOP.” […]

David 2 days agoMay 1, 2026

Blog Health Hacks Memoirs of a Renaissance Man The Adventures of Adi and David

Letting Go:

How a Liver Cleanse Taught Me to Stop Resisting and Start Letting Go Adi and I have been spending quite a bit of time lately at a place in the Texas Hill Country called Sovereignty Ranch, which belongs to some dear friends of ours and which I have come to love with the kind of […]

David 3 weeks agoApril 14, 2026

Blog Memoirs of a Renaissance Man Quietude The Adventures of Adi and David The Elegant Universe

A Letter to My Children: What Time Has Taught Me

The Things That Matter Most in the End I have been reflecting more than usual lately, moving through moments that can only be reached now through memory. Adi left for a few days to give her heart to a cause in the Hill Country, and she took our oldest with her, leaving me as steward […]

David 1 month agoApril 3, 2026

Blog Memoirs of a Renaissance Man The Adventures of Adi and David

The Feast Before the Fast

The island is alive, and the drumbeats carry all the way to our wraparound porch on 33rd, steady and insistent, only a few short blocks from the parade route lined thick along 25th. Mardi Gras has arrived, and with it Galveston braces for a weekend of unabashed celebration. Sirens from fire engines slice through the […]

David 3 months agoFebruary 15, 2026

Blog Memoirs of a Renaissance Man Quietude The Elegant Universe

Rumi’s Life-Changing The 3 Gates of Speech

Quietude on Amazon Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary? The great Sufi poet, Rumi, believed that before we speak, our words should pass through three gates. Each gate asks a simple question, yet each one carries weight. Is it true? Is it necessary? Is it kind? These poignant questions aren’t meant to […]

David 3 months agoJanuary 26, 2026