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My hope is that there will come a day when I travel the world and write about it. For now, I search through notebooks, hard drives, oral histories, my grandmother's musings from 1904, cocktail napkins, my college poetry journal, and the backs of paid bills to transcribe all I've written or tried to write. Perhaps I'll end up with a book. In any case, my office will be neater...

5/12/12

Forced Off The Path

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It’s happened to all of us.   We’re walking along, oblivious, perhaps whistling, thinking that tomorrow will be relatively the same as...
5/5/12

TED Talk: Sculpting Waves

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Reuben Margolin is a kinetic sculptor, and his works evoke nature and the feel of meditation. This video will only take nine minu...
4/14/12

The Golden Times

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When I was in college, a group of close friends and I spent a weekend at a cabin in the mountains.  Before you ask -- yes, alcohol was in...

TED Talk: Half a Million Secrets

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Frank Warren, the creator of PostSecret.com got the idea to have people send him something they'd never told anyone on a postcard...
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3/25/12

To Everything, There is a Season...

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I woke up this morning with this song in my head:   "Turn, Turn, Turn" .   The Byrds, a 1960s California folk rock band, made...
3/17/12

On My Bookshelf: “Benjamin Franklin: An American Life”

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A simple Google search will quickly bring up multiple reviews of Walter Isaacson’s biography of Franklin, and certainly in more informat...
3/16/12

TED Talks: Simple Ideas That Changed the World

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Another wonderful TED talk, only seven and a half minutes long… We sometimes discount the unanswered questions that wander around...
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I'm a work in progress, and the way I seem to progress is to write about it...
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