to be a restless searcher
My Writers Studio colleague Lisa Bellamy often describes the “healthy jealousy” that arises when a writer encounters work that excites
on picking and choosing
Maxwell’s Demon, a being postulated by the physicist James Clerk Maxwell in his 1871 book Theory of Heat, plays
what is wisdom?
Since last summer I’ve been a student in the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies at Queens College.
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In March and April, I’d dream that we had come to the lake, and in my dreams I’d
cracks in the labyrinth
In the episode “Where There Is a Will” of This American Life, producer David Kestenbaum wrestles with the possibility that
the garden of forking paths
This Tuesday at last I got my hands on a book I had waited years to read: Agency, the sequel
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When I told a friend that I long to create a spacious container (i.e., an orderly home and routines)
paying attention to dreams
Long ago, before I took up Zen practice, I considered taking up witchcraft. Old longings stirred in me as I
staying on topic
I started reading Pattern Recognition last Thursday evening and finished reading Zero History, the last novel in the Blue Ant
feeling my way out of the miasma
The heading that opens the second chapter of Marie Kondo’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, “Start by discarding,
