“The problem is that progress stopped making sense. More and more of us looked up one day and realized that the emperor had no clothes.” ― Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility… Read More ›
“But I don’t want to be Godly. I just want to be good.” ― Caradog Prichard, One Moonlit Night I’ve got a couple of pet peeves, which probably won’t surprise anybody who has been reading me for more than… Read More ›
“What is truth?” Sometimes people ask this question because they wish to do nothing. Generic cynicism makes us feel hip and alternative even as we slip along with our fellow citizens into a morass of indifference. It is your ability… Read More ›
“She informed me, matter-of-factly, that she was old enough to know the difference between intriguing and fucked up. ‘You should go for younger women,’ she advised me. ‘They can’t always tell.’” —Tana French, In the Woods All good things must… Read More ›
“If you think the story has a sad ending, it’s because it’s not over yet.” ― Emily Henry, Beach Read Let’s step out of the schoolhouse for a moment and talk politics. You may know that Tennessee is in… Read More ›
“you are brought face to face with the great question about the soccer coach: Does he really matter? It turns out that coaches or managers (call them what you like) simply don’t make that much difference.” ― Simon Kuper, Soccernomics:… Read More ›
“Politics is like dice: the better the player, the worse the man.” ― C.J. Sansom, Heartstone The Fourth of July has always been my favorite holiday. Growing up, it marked the unofficial beginning of summer, when city folks would… Read More ›
“What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don’t read the books.” ― A.S. Byatt Two weeks ago today I was sitting in the bleachers watching my son’s baseball game. The game… Read More ›
“It seems a universal rule in this world that people will always look for victims and scapegoats, does it not? Especially at times of difficulty and tension.” ― C.J. Sansom, Dissolution Remember that old lyric, “It’s summertime and the… Read More ›
“Nothing is a cliche when you’re living it.” ― Ben Lerner, The Topeka School Sometimes I get the answers to questions before I even publicly ask them. Case in point: high school graduations. Over the last couple of weeks,… Read More ›
Dad Gone Wild 