IF YOU TEACH A MAN TO FISH STICK
Almost every day, I encounter a new article warning about how Artificial Intelligence is going to change everything, or how it already has. Maybe it offers wondrous new advantages, maybe it’s the end of life as we know it. Maybe…
POWER TO THE PEOPLE
I kinda sorta had an idea of what I was going to write about this week, but then last night we went to see Christopher Nolan’s movie, Oppenheimer. So now my mind is a churning sea of paradox and ambivalence,…
STATING THE OBVIOUS
I wrote down this title a few weeks ago after my friend Sheila said it to me. I don’t remember the substance of our exchange. We were chatting in the front studio of Maple Street Dance Space. She said something…
ON THE COB
Merriam-Webster, the dictionary, is one of THE BEST Instagram accounts that I follow. It’s witty, sassy, and informative. They offer a vocabulary-building word-of-the-day. Often, they share interesting etymological tidbits [did you know that “hoosegow,” the old wild-west term for a…
BUTTERFLY EFFECTS
Recently, I read a short piece about a woman who performed a wing transplant on a living monarch butterfly in Topeka, Kansas. When this butterfly emerged from her chrysalis, it was plain that one of her wings had not formed…
SOME SLACK
I’ve been noticing (again) how deeply uncomfortable I am with empty space. This week, I’ve been vexed by empty space in my calendar. It’s totally neurotic, but I feel an urgency, a compulsion, to fill it up. I worry that…
