A science article in The Atlantic a few months ago — “How Animals Perceive the World,” by Ed Yong —…

A hundred and fifty years ago, a group of edgy outsider artists organized a renegade exhibition. These painters all had…

I was reading about the origins of “Goldilocks.” I’d never thought much about it. The story seems pretty timeless, always…

“Are we ready for peace? When the world is ready for peace, it will have peace. When the individual is…

The summer after my freshman year in college, I performed the Beatles’ “Penny Lane,” solo and without accompaniment, in a…

It’s an interesting conundrum to recognize in ourselves both the fact that we’re constantly growing and the truth that we’re…

I encountered a quote last week that has continued to knock around in my head. Film director Federico Fellini said,…

Travis has always liked beavers and identified with them. He thinks of Beaver as his animal guide. So for his…

A friend asked how I was doing, and I replied, “I’ve got a lot of balls in the air.” I…

I remembered that once upon a time, I had done a talk inspired by this Stephen Sondheim song title —…

American composer John Cage wrote a provocative piece in the mid-1980s. It’s called “Organ 2/As Slow As Possible.” Keyboardists are…

The number one song on Billboard’s Hot 100 pop music chart the day that I was born — almost 55…