Frozen Toothpaste

Since it’s been warm outside recently (at least where I live), what better time is there for a poem about snow? This fun little poem, “Snow, Aldo,” is by Kate DeCamillo.
Once, I was in New York,
in Central Park, and I saw
an old man in a black overcoat walking
a black dog. This was springtime
and the trees […]

Perhaps I’m the only one who hadn’t realized before, but there are over six billion people in the world. Those people are, at a given time, in 6 billion different places, doing 6 billion different things, and thinking six billion different thoughts. That means that each second, 18 billion potential — but very inexact — data points are being […]

Dr. Seuss’s Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? is a book I knew by title long before I took the time to read it. I should also note that I think the question posed by the title is one that’s is critically important to ask of me and people like me. People […]

I’ve been thinking about taking a week off from this space for a while, and I finally reached the point where such thoughts become the official plan. I shall be back next week, same as ever.

prakhar
Be heard, provoke consideration, but never — never — be perceived as impetuous. The second the public at large sees you are a bigger problem than the problem you’re protesting about, you’ve lost.
These thoughts of mine were provoked in no small part because of the amount of coverage that recent protests along the path of the Olympic torch relay […]