2018: Toot Your Own Horn
This year has, by all accounts, been a real trash fire. Despite the prevailing national mood, my own life has been pretty good. It’s a strange dissonance,...
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Figuring out How to Vote: California 2018 Midterm Elections Edition
I’ve started listening to Gaslit Nation, an excellent podcast by two journalists who are experts in authoritarianism. The hosts have been emphasizing the ...
The Power: The Fantasy You Didn’t Know You Needed
Thoughts on The Power by Naomi Alderman The Power is a story set in a frame. A man, 5,000 years in the future, pitches this book as a way to help readers visual...
When Nothing Happens
I consider myself extremely fortunate to have never been the victim of sexual assault or abuse. That doesn’t mean I have always felt safe. There have been...
Books of the Decade 2008–2017
When I posted my books of the year update for 2017, I realized that I’ve been tracking my reading for 10 years now. My methods have evolved over the decad...
Hello, 2018
2017 was a very full year. It seemed like I had something going on every weekend, which is not my normal way of living, but it worked out. We have my work-from-...
2017: The Year in Books
I made it through 62 books in 2017, which feels like a success considering the madness this year wrought. In comparison, I read 41 last year, 71 in 2015 and 90 ...
Being an Athlete
I am an athlete. That feels hard to say, but I’ve realized that whether I recognize it or not, it is a fact. Athletes train their bodies. Athletes compete...
Empathy for My Teenaged Self
Memory is a mysterious force. Today I was cooking some cheese-stuffed pasta shells for dinner. It’s a dish I haven’t made as an adult, but one I did...
Out of Body
There’s something about choosing an inanimate object as a Halloween costume that simultaneously amuses and unnerves people. When I was a kid I was fond of paint...