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David Ahearn and Adi together outside La Fermette Marbeuf in Paris

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You Will Meet a Woman in Paris

A comedian, a soldier named George W. Bush Jr., and the whisper I almost ignored.

David 5 days ago

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The Only Lesson We Came Here to Learn

“Are you a traveling man?” It is a curious question to put to someone who carries no suitcase, no ticket, and no sunburn from a recent cruise. To the uninitiated ear, it sounds like small talk at a hotel bar, an idle inquiry into where we have been and where we hope to wander next. […]

David 4 weeks agoOctober 31, 2026

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Before It Ignites

In the Hill Country, the fall takes its time arriving. The heat holds through September and often into October, and a man could swear nothing has changed when the calendar turns to the equinox. The first sign is the light. It comes in at a lower angle in the afternoon and lays across the grass […]

David 2 months agoOctober 31, 2026

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A Ranch Hand’s Best Friend

“Benjamin died,” Adi told me. We were closing out Tuesday and the first day of the work week was going down with the sun. I tried to get my mind around it. “How did he die,” I asked her. Two nights before that I had watched Benjamin lie on the gravel between the Barn and […]

David 2 months agoAugust 28, 2026

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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 6 months agoMay 1, 2026

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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 7 months agoOctober 29, 2026

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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 7 months agoApril 3, 2026

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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 9 months agoOctober 29, 2026

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Rio Machuca and the Blue Morpho

“I am okay. Everything is okay. I pass the baton to you.”—Nonnie There is a mystical river that runs through the rainforest above San Mateo in Costa Rica, a living portal that whispers only to those who grow quiet enough to receive her voice. To call her enchanting feels insufficient, almost irreverent, because language falters […]

David 9 months agoOctober 29, 2026