John Pacheco Blogs

Geo F. Trumper, considered by many to be the apex in men's wet shaving gear, has posted a link to my wet shaving post on their facebook...

Today, we spent the afternoon visiting the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library in Austin. We hadn’t visited the Library in a number of y...

According to the WSJ , the other shoe has dropped in the Madoff Ponzi scheme case. Irving Picard, the court appointed trustee in charge of ...

Every year, Fortune Magazine has an issue where business leaders discuss the best advice they’ve received. That got me thinking about my li...

The print version of the WSJ had a photo of the Mexican tall ship Cuauhtemoc sailing into San Francisco on Monday July 13th. Unfortunately ...

One of the nice things about summer reading is that in addition to new stuff, you can revisit some old books that you haven’t read in years ...

I have a new Hamilton Jazz Master Chrono, a gift from my wife. It’s a beautiful watch with a classic masculine appearance, reminiscent of...

I found this old book I hadn’t picked up in years, and got reacquainted with it this weekend. This collection of stories was Philip Roth...

You can now comment on Barbour in  Facebook. For info on how to wax a Barbour Jacket, click here ; for a review by me on the Barbour Beaufor...

My wife and I started on the South Beach Diet this week. (I’m trying to bring down my cholesterol.) We’re in Phase One, which means I can’t...

The current June issue of Vanity Fair has an interesting article on Bernie Madoff and his 18-billion dollar Ponzi scheme. In the article...

Some blogs I follow have started a commentary on what a man should carry on his everyday person. Some men insist on being loaded for bear, o...

Like the Apostle Paul on the road to Damascus, the scales have fallen off my eyes and I now see that my many years of conservative values ...

During my recent stay in El Paso, I hiked up the Franklin Mountains for exercise. I used to run up the mountain on a fairly regular basis wh...

(Photo Left- For Christmas my wife gave me a travel bag for my golf clubs, which I’m getting some use of. I’m happy to report that so far th...

“He consumed works of art the way other people consumed beer and meat and potatoes. They fed his ego with proofs of his own imagination and ...

Late Christmas morning, while jogging in our neighborhood, my wife came across a horse which had somehow gotten loose. A neighbor told my w...

OK, I have a confession to make. Despite my daily use of a digital ThinkPad and Blackberry Pearl, I still cling to my Franklin Day Planner....

In the past month or so, a number of people have mentioned to me that they are considering buying their first gun for the purpose of ho...

2nd Lieutenant Macan of Quartermaster Officer Basic Course 90-5 is now Major Macan and on the Lieutenant Colonel promotion list. (He left ac...