One of the most disturbing pieces of information I discovered while researching my play, “The Engine of Our Destruction” is the link between child drownings and parents glued to cell phones. A Texas mother was charged after a witness reportedly claimed she was using her phone while three of her children drowned in an apartment complex pool in 2015. Drowning rates are highest …
wishes for sons (1987) i wish them cramps.i wish them a strange townand the last tampon.i wish them no 7-11. i wish them one week earlyand wearing a white skirt.i wish them one week late. later i wish them hot flashesand clots like youwouldn’t believe. let theflashes come when theymeet someone special.let the clots comewhen they want to. let them think they have …
“Everything good needs time. Don’t do work in a hurry. Go into details; it pays in every way. Time means power for your work. Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.” ~ Amelia Barr, …
Today, by Billy Collins If ever there were a spring day so perfect,so uplifted by a warm intermittent breeze that it made you want to throwopen all the windows in the house and unlatch the door to the canary’s cage,indeed, rip the little door from its jamb, a day when the cool brick pathsand the garden bursting with peonies seemed …
Lying there among the trees, despite a learned wariness towards anthropomorphism, I find it hard not to imagine these arboreal relations in terms of tenderness, generosity and even love: the respectful distance of their shy crowns, the kissing branches that have pleached with one another, the unseen connections forged by root and hyphae between seemingly distant trees. I remember something …
I was interested to read about the polling app NewNew, which is creating something like the Opposite of Influencers. NewNew, a start-up in Los Angeles, describes its product as creating a “human stock market.” On the app, fans (aka random people on the internet) pay to vote in polls to control some of a creator’s day-to-day decisions. Whether it’s the …
If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise, and not very often kind. And much can never be redeemed. Still, life has some possibility left. Perhaps this is its way of fighting back, that sometimes something happens better than …
I’m in the process of reevaluating how I start my day. Generally, I rise, stretch, make and drink coffee, feed and pet BeBop, and check my email. Ugh. That last bit. I am reading that how you start the day, your morning routine, is make-or-break for the rest of that day. I don’t believe that; I believe I can restart …
I’ve been slow to add blog posts lately, as I’m working to complete Act II of my new play about ethics in Big Tech. Or rather, lack of ethics. The play was originally titled Zero Tolerance, but that doesn’t really apply any more. The new working title is The Engine of our Destruction. I’m examining the ethical choices of two …
Poet Diane Ackerman on reinventing yourself: “Living things tend to change unrecognizably as they grow. Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? Flora or fauna, we are all shapeshifters and magical reinventors. Life is really a plural noun, a caravan of selves.” Source: Cultivating Delight