notes from my visit to the Bodies exhibit , Las Vegas strip, summer of 2012 ( en route to New York via the heartland of our country ). Bodi...

notes from my second (!!) move from California to New York, summer-ish 2012. left a Silicon Valley job to go to grad school out east, chasin...

Parakeet by Marie-Helene Bertino My rating: 5 of 5 stars A delightful, strange, and punchy book that I assumed would be whimsical and c...

I think learning gratitude is really just the process of growing up. Of learning that everything you enjoy now is the product of sacrific...

today is my half birthday. it marks the halfway point in the last year of my 20s. i thought i'd be more afraid to grow old but as i ge...

a year ago i was in a really dark place -- i'd never felt so lost, worthless, and depressed. i left my job, my relationship was falling ...

it's amazing to me how frequently society overvalues romantic relationships while ignoring the power of all the other loving relationshi...

sometimes we need the reminder:

i finally finished grading papers for the Conflict Management course i taught earlier this month. started packing up boxes of my stuff today...

i wish i didn't suck at bar chords! my piano and violin-trained fingers just don't want to get flat against the finger board like t...

thoughts on Richard Linklater's Boyhood : the conspicuous role of music in creating atmosphere - like a diegetic time capsule (i'...

i got to cross a big one off my bucket list last night, when i saw Jackson Browne perform an acoustic set at the historic Landmark Theatre i...