2016-09-09 14:11
I knew I’d never be able to write much about my mother while she was alive. It would be too complicated and potentially wounding to her, potentially destructive to our relat… Read More
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The Annotated Zoetrope | The Zoetrope, Or "wheel O Blog
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The Zoetrope, or "Wheel of Life," is an instructive Scientific Toy, illustrating in an attractive manner the persistence of an image on the retina of the eye; by revolving the cylinder by the hand, and looking through the openings, the images passing rapidly before the eye are blended, so as to give the figures the motions of life in the most natural manner.
2014-07-22 22:51
I don’t think I know very many people who aren’t struggling a lot of the time to feel alive.
Sometimes the days, weeks, even months drain by, but they don’t speak to u… Read More
2014-07-17 22:34
This is Part 3 or a four part series narrating the entire story of the 2014 World Cup as a game fought between the Beautiful Game and the Ugly Deception. I invite you to read… Read More
2014-07-10 21:49
NOTE: This is a continuation of a previous post on the World Cup in which the tournament is itself one large game played between two sides: The Beautiful Game and the Ugly Decepti… Read More
2014-07-09 18:57
(Disclaimer: In this post I may be writing soccer and football synonymously because I’m from the US but live with a South American and we use both terms interchangeably. &nb&hell…Read More
2014-06-02 11:23
Have you ever picked up a book that you had read once before, a long while back, and been struck by how different an experience it was reading it a second time? When we repeat an exper… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
The perks of the freelancing lifestyle are numerous – you don’t have to go to an office, you don’t have to get dressed, you don’t have to make smalltalk with yo… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I told a lie today. It was an innocent lie. It neither served a purpose nor caused injury. The sort of lie that floats out of your mouth and hangs suspended in mid-air momentaril… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
It is a very rare moment when France strikes me as wild. Picturesque? Of course. Quaint? Most definitely. Provincial? Frequently. But wild? Almost never. *** Not much more than a… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
The past year has been without much rhythm, a time of starts and jarring stops, a year a bit here and there and everywhere. I have only spent six weeks in Pau total since October, four… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
The hypocritical distance between the idea of France and the reality of France the Nation creates the dangerous illusion that French ideals of liberty and equality and French Nationalism can… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Most of what we consume online is stuff that has already gone viral. What does this imply? It means that people are mostly only seeing and hearing all the same things that everyone else the… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Imaginary friends populated my youth. In childhood, my sister and I each had an invisible elephant (one pink, one blue) that we’d ride around the col-de-sac. Mythical creatu… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
It had been a very long time since I’d been alone in a cemetery. I was walking down a hill into the village of Gavarnie in the middle of the Pyrenees, looki… Read More
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