Author: ps pirro

• Cherry Syrup

  I have a few things of yours,dusty in the bottom of a drawerI haven’t opened in years,rags and bits of old news,a birthday card from…

• It’s Very You

  I sent a copy of Beautiful Terrible World to my mother. Today she called to tell me what she thought of it. “It sounds like…

• This is My Radio Voice

  I hung out on the radio for a bit last month with my buddy and local npr-affiliate show host John Gibson, talking about Beautiful Terrible World and…

• Alas, Just an Asteroid

  Moments after the words were said aloud for the first time, and the tides turned and the waters parted and the dark was at last…

• The Gratuitous Gratification of Wrath

  Rob Brezsny owns my heart. In the forward to Richard Grossinger’s book, The Bardo of Waking Life, Brezsny — creator of Free Will Astrology and…

• Coyote Calls

  Coyote wants to know if you’ve ever seen the desert and you tell him you dreamed it as a child in a bedroom facing west…

• With All the Thoughtfulness of a Sneeze

  Alfie Kohn on the ranking of American students vis a vis the rest of the world: If our reason for emphasizing students’ relative standing (rather…

• Weimar America

  (T)here really is a difference between a troubled, dysfunctional, and failing representative democracy and a totalitarian state, (and) a movement that promises to overturn a…

• Launch Party

  My friends are hosting a local book launch party for Beautiful Terrible World sometime in March. If you’re local, watch for an event announcement on…

• From My Feed

  Two items about learning from my feed this morning, appearing back-to-back. The first is about horses, the second about children. From Dave Pollard, at How…