The Vox: Bluffton Today and New Media for Cranky Old People

I’m in Del Webb’s Sun City Hilton Head right now.  It’s a (semi)retirement gated residential community for white boomers from the Northeast, and I have to be honest–I like it here.  There’s golf, tennis, pickleball, nature hiking, and a plethora of other activities.
There are many things that bind this community of 6,000-plus households together: old [...]

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The Biltmore Estate: A Bastion of Capitalist Greed

We’ve been on the road recently, and last week we stopped at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, NC.  The Biltmore prides itself in being “America’s largest home,” and for hundreds of tourists each year the mansion is an edifice that represents the limitless possibilities of the American Dream.  The house was commissioned by the railroad tycoon George [...]

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Ticket Scalpers: Opportunistic Vultures or Invaluable Time Brokers?

As great as Boston’s Fenway Park is, its small size presents some problems.  A couple weeks ago, my family and I made yet another pilgrimage to Fenway, the New England  sanctuary that seats just under 37,000 people.  The limited ticket supply, coupled with a now-global “Red Sox Nation” and a resonably successful team, has made [...]

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Simplify, simplify.

I’ve been on vacation for the past week.  The highlight, thus far, has to be our family’s pilgrimage to Walden Pond, where Henry David Thoreau lived deliberately for a couple of years during the height of literary Transcendentalism in the 1840s.  The pond, which is now a National Park, appears almost as one would expect.  [...]

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