History is the narrative of people searching for a place to go.

Any book is better than no book. Slowly, surely, one will lead you to another, which will lead you to the best.

While I was busy hating Vegas, and hiding from Vegas, a funny thing happened. I grew to love Vegas.

While I fear that we're drawn to what abandons us, and to what seems most likely to abandon us, in the end I believe we're defined by what embraces us.

Of course many bars in Manhasset, like bars everywhere, were nasty places, full of pickled people marinating in regret.

To be a man, a boy must see a man

Long before it legally served me, the bar saved me. It restored my faith when I was a boy, tended me as a teenager, and when I was a young man the bar embraced me.