How The West Wing is helping me think about another NYTimes article

August 8, 2013.Reading time 7 minutes.

Steve and I are in the midst of a two-week West Wing marathon. I love the writing – plot, pacing, brilliant banter. It helps me think about the mixed reality of human life: how sometimes we win, but just as often we lose, either because we blow it or someone pulls some last minute stunt […]

Calling Bullsh*t on the Trauma of Being Alive

August 5, 2013.Reading time 9 minutes.

I just read an article in today’s New York Times called The Trauma of Being Alive. It pissed me off. It feeds the dysfunctional obsession with defining ourselves in terms of the worst thing that has happened so far. Child of bad parents? Been through an ugly divorce? Lose a friend or sibling or parent […]

Surprised by Joy (and a purple Huffy bike)

August 2, 2013.Reading time 2 minutes.

I spent some happy times on our vacation this week tooling around on this ridiculous purple bicycle. I know there are all kinds of metaphors just waiting for me in this, and I’ll dig them out eventually. (Expect to read about the Purple Huffy in a book someday down the road.) But for now, I’m […]