teenage years in south florida during the housing boom.

There was also the remarkable quiet, such that if a Maltese barked softly at one side of the neighborhood, it would wake up the leathery middle-aged divorcee sunning at the community pool on the other.

Do what you love. It will never feel like work.

That title is a quote from a recent interview with Bill Belichick. I found it while researching an essay I’m …