There’s nothing quite like a good mind stretch. Malcolm Gladwell puts it this way: “You’re never more alive than when things get turned upside down.” Whether you think of it as an expansion or an inversion [More….]
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Four in the morning is generally not a good time, whether you’re coming at it from a long night, or meeting it as the start of what will likely be an unconscionably long day. [Read more]
It would be great if we could collectively walk ourselves back from this ledge we’ve been approaching, [Read more]
An article on the downside of being too upbeat caught my attention recently, and I bring up the topic to mull it over with you. [Read more]
Today I’m going more general, with a TED Ed animation that provides some insight into a few of the ways that poetry creates its effects. [Read more]
presumably because the idea of having to write down that you finished half a packet of cold french fries is enough to make you think better of it. [Read more]
From a 1638 manuscript by the Bishop of Hereford positing a goose-powered contraption for human flight,
I promised in early June that once I found the lyrics to the new verse of “Danny Boy” [Read more]
The finished piece looks so right and polished that it gives the impression that the work to bring it about was somehow effortless. [Read more]
Not really a “No way, no how” kind of answer, but at least it was a No. [Read more]
