Category: and so it goes

• Moving the Furniture

  The last time I was in Buffalo, New York, was perhaps 15 years ago. It was even then a city in ruins, roads gone unrepaired, the industrial…

• We Do What We Do

  I have a friend who takes to the woods each morning with her camera. She photographs insects and snakeskin and dew on spiderwebs, orange daylilies…

• Save Your Energy

  The very-energetic Joe Konrath continues his point-by-point refutation of the idea that Amazon is the devil. Me, I’m still contemplating the seemingly-unrelated (but we know…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…