It’s our last night in this funky apartment. I should be more sad, but instead I’m just — what is this feeling? I’m just sort of hanging out in space, not sad but not glad to be leaving either. We will have fun at the new place and I know it’s a good thing but [...]
The other night I saw this terrific video podcast about why people procrastinate. The idea is that when we are kids we feel that we’re being forced to do things, and the only way for a slave to take any control is to do things inefficiently. Comply, but drag your feet. Wait till the last [...]
A minute ago I was sitting on the couch with a dog leaned against me. Scraps of paper in a little pile at my feet. It’s late, 2:30 in the morning and I was cutting out inkjet prints of 17th century art to make a deck of flash cards.
You might not have guessed this [...]
Nicolaus is a kid who always thinks big, always wants to wave a protest flag or burn down a bank or start a scout group or… you know? Spread the word about whatever he is doing.
He freaking adores the Jamie Oliver Food Revolution show. We stumbled across it on Hulu and watched it all [...]
We’ve been learning about the great Age of Discovery, the amazing period in history when Europeans suddenly discovered that the world was far more vast and rich and populated than they had ever imagined. It was an age of discovery for other civilizations too, as people living on every continent discovered that Europeans are pretty [...]