It has been more than a month since I posted here. And before a short streak of three relatively-consecutive posts, it had been nearly a month before that. I say this not to apologize—it’s been far too long for that to be anything but hollow—but to demonstrate my point. Around the start of June of […]

Making twilight more beautiful, since the dawn of time Because I nearly missed it, and because it wasn’t going to be around long, I seemed far more concerned than anyone else that tonight’s twilight, in this time and place, was full of beautiful and unexpected colors, in beautiful and unexpected places. I suppose it started […]

I was struck recently, by a bit of profundity in the oddest of places. Twitter, as you may know, is a “micro-blogging” system that allows you to post thoughts of at most 140 characters. It sounds like thoroughly pointless technology, but it was there that I found this: so many different ways i could have […]

wickenden (ASA) There are two general signs that a blog is heading toward extinction. The first is a declining frequency of posting, and the second is a proportional rise in the number of posts about the blog itself. These two don’t always go hand-in-hand; sometimes it’s just one or the other, sometimes you don’t get […]

Recently I’ve been giving some serious thought to my aversion to cable news, local news programs, and the vast quantities of stories that circulate on the internet. I came to this rough conclusion: There are essentially two kinds of news: events and trends that change the lives of millions of people, and one-off stories about […]