Sorry for the lack of action around here lately. Take your pick of excuses: deadlines, writing fatigue (I’m almost halfway through a book), a succession of houseguests, a throat infection, the heat. You name it.

I would announce a blogging hiatus if it wasn’t for the fact that every time I have considered putting this blog to sleep over the past few years I have resumed frenetic blogging within a matter of weeks.

The picture, by the way, is the 175′ megayacht Kisses, which Sofie and I gawked at while slurping ice creams in Sag Harbor, Long Island, the other week with my parents. Pretty impressive, as long as it’s not moored alongside Larry Ellison’s Rising Sun.