Hello!

Welcome to The Epic! I am launching this blog as a manifesto for and a guide to living well. The title and motto of the blog are taken from the Epicureans, at least some of whom believed in the notion that not one minute of the future was guaranteed to them and that as a result they had the duty to live life to its fullest every moment.

I believe in discovering fun and pleasurable things wherever I find myself each day and I am told I have a knack for unearthing them. My hope is that by sharing in my pleasures and some of my ways of finding them you will begin to collect all the riches that lie in the moments of your life. They are there. Take them! All our lives should be.....Epic.

Sunday, October 23, 2016

Happy Birthday Ms. Deneuve!!!


Catherine Deneuve is 73 today.  The quintessential French "woman of a certain age".  When I was in Paris some years ago my wife texted me that she would know if I went missing the only possible explanation is that C.D. and I had met!! I think that showed a wild over-appreciation of my charms!

She recently said that social media "don't allow people to dream anymore".  It certainly doesn't work that way for me.  Tonight I will have a bourbon on the rocks [one of her favorites] in her honor.


Friday, October 21, 2016

Happy Birthday AJ!!!


This is the birthday of A.J. Liebling, author of the book that made me "Paris aware".  Please procure a copy of "Between Meals, an Appetite for Paris" and see for yourself.  Then have a seven course dinner with appropriate wines to celebrate the life of this tremendous and under appreciated writer.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY A.J.!!!!!

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Safari


The Epic Helen Keller aptly stated that "life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all".  For all the adventures of an Epic life, an adventurer's jacket is required.  And of all the jackets in all the towns in all the world, no jacket is more adventurous than the safari jacket.  All the right pockets to hold your identification papers, money, plastic, the little writing journal with the elastic strap to hold it closed, and [forbid] the occasional flask.

I wear my safari jacket all the time for travel and for the closer by adventures which one can find on any given weekend.  It is perfect for any occasion not calling for a sports coat and tie and it gives just the right sort of dashing impression. An impression that one is the sort of fellow [or lady] who is just popping in for a whisky neat before catching the next train.

I have owned several safari jackets and you can pay almost ridiculous amounts of money for them. My favorite is the one shown above which you can get from Cabela's for about seventy bucks with free shipping.  At times they put them on sale for less than forty bucks. In three color choices including a somewhat awful camo.

Wherever you find your jacket, trust me that the adventures will come right along for the ride.