“How come everybody over ten years old is frowning?” — Vic Chestnutt We adults¹ like to believe a lot of things to make us feel better about where we’re at. We wax nostalgic about the lessons we know at thirty that may have served us at twenty. We tend to…

february 8, 2022 big hard sun the sun and wind are ubiquitous on aruba. the weather is nothing if not consistent. highs and lows for the next five days are: 86/77, 84/77, 83/77, 82/77, 82/77. there will be a breeze or a wind always because of where the island sits geographically…

neuroscientist jeff hawkins’ book “A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence”, aims to answer a quite straightforward question: “how do simple cells in the brain create intelligence?” the answer, dumbed down entirely, is that our brain cells create models of the world and we interact with those models. since…

*the necessary disclaimer is that i’m not a scientist or philosopher or qualified in any way to make any of these claims and so will probably err terribly in using the right words for what i’m trying to explain. …

“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter — ’tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.” — Mark Twain the first time i listened to jason isbell was on a long and straight and uniform but not lonely drive. kip…

“I guess he wasn’t a painter at all. He had no courage and I believe that to create one’s own world in any of the arts takes courage.” — Georgia O’Keefe — in the opening pages of “the white album”, joan didion speaks to one’s connection with a narrative and…

“i tie my boots up tight and i head straight for bed there’s a pistol and a crystal underneath my pillow” — dr. dog it never ceases to amaze me the screens that pop off inside my big dumb melon when i’m asleep and if it ever does cease to…

“it feels like lifetimes ago.” “it was.” on some sunny day in february of 2020 i had two coffees on an outside chair and waited for the bus. it wasn’t cold for a minnesotan. it wasn’t warm either. i had a long sleeve and a wind jacket and a hat…