Anecdotal evidence is just that: anecdotal. One situation doesn’t prove anything one way or another, and in fact can be misleading in the larger context. The one person that dies from The New [Almost] Perfect Drug does not accurately represent the ten thousand that were…
If you accept that every moment is temporary, and every moment is as it should be, then the motivation to get up off the couch feels, well, small. There are inevitabilities in life. We accept what we can’t change. Aging. Cancer. Separation. Death. Decisions we…
Editor’s Note: This post first appeared July 29, 2011.
When Christine Tomaszewski, a photographer I met when we worked at the same tech firm, excused herself from a lunch table of coworkers to climb a wobbly bar stool, lean way over the bar, and shoot a photo of the glasses lining the back wall, I knew we would get along. The pursuit of art and pretty shiny things continues to infuse our conversations and so I was more than pleased when she agreed to an email interview.
This weekend, while on a peaceful hike in Shenandoah, I saw another hiker scrambling back up the path, eyes wide. He slowed down when he saw me, and explained in a breathless North Carolina accent, “Bear! There’s a bear just around the bend. I’m not kidding!”
cross-posted at Artful Mistakes I started last week seeing a movie with a friend about caves, and ended the week scrambling around inside caves with a totally different crowd of people. Sometimes, life just works that way, creating its own themes. Welcome to Cave Week. Watch…
While grandfather was a newspaperman in his professional life, he was a shutterbug in his off hours.
When Christine Tomaszewski, a photographer I met when we worked at the same tech firm, excused herself from a lunch table of coworkers to climb a wobbly bar stool, lean way over the bar, and shoot a photo of the glasses lining the back wall, I knew we would get along. The pursuit of art and pretty shiny things continues to infuse our conversations and so I was more than pleased when she agreed to an email interview.
Memory is unpredictable. What stays and what goes lacks any rational processing.