Confessions of an Economist

During my first years in graduate school as an aspiring economist, the most mathematically complex papers required a great deal of time and effort to read. The papers were written as if to a private club, and we felt proud when we successfully entered the club. Although I copied the style of these overly complex [...]

The Winter Of My Content: A Seasonal Serenade

The wisemen had predicted it but still the people, unbelieving, turned their faces upwards, in contemplation of the black velvet night sky. The stars twinkled like fireflies in the glacial air, harbingers of the extraordinary events to come. Then, suddenly, as if a divine conjuror had waved his magic wand, it began. Just one frosted [...]

Larry and the Little Chef

Yes, you read that right. The Little Chef. And no, I can’t even pretend I stumbled here out of necessity, drawn by a crippling hunger on some arduous journey. I went out of my way to go. ‘twas a bright and mild evening and my other half and I were journeying for a long weekend [...]

Not Just for Halloween

I want to buy a gory, freaky, latex horror mask from Rubber Gorilla. Yes, it’s Halloween soon, but that’s not why I want one. I don’t even have a Halloween party to go to. The truth is – I just want one, but that’s not an ‘excuse’. It’s one of those unbelievable truths, as if [...]

The Tea Snob

I have become a middle-class tea snob. Not a tea connoisseur, mind you, but a snob, and there is a difference. For many years I have enjoyed a cup of Twinings Earl Grey of a morning, yet quite content to go ‘downmarket’ for the second cup of the day in the form of a PG [...]

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