Creative Destruction
I stared out at the Gulf, a ripe nectarine in one hand, a bag of granola in the other, watching the playboy yachts chugging south toward the Keys and the half-drunk […]
Tag Archives: back-breaking projects
The Thing About Wood Heat
They say there is no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothes. I was wearing bad clothes. Bare feet sheathed only in Ugg slippers. Lightweight polyester-cotton blend long johns […]
Hay Fever
You would never guess it from the marketing materials. The catalogs and print advertisements and websites all feature rock climbers perched on vertical cliffs, backcountry skiers buried in champagne powder, […]
The Smell of Work
The iPhone alarm sounded at 4:30am and three hours later the MD-88 lifted off from a promising April morning at Detroit Metro Airport. Seventy minutes of turbulence later it landed […]
Just Like the Catalog
Despite being a hot, sticky affair with little breeze and Honduras-level amounts of humidity, it had been a busy, accomplished Saturday. But by 11pm my glands were beginning to surrender. […]
One-Hour Vacation
On those sweaty late nights, when all the ceiling fans are all running full-speed and the clock marches double-time past midnight, when the kids are all finally in bed but […]
Paul Fredenberg 