Things Invisible to See
Dark and Light at the Same Time
Or, Schrödinger's cat plots her revenge.
Bread and Stories
At the Heart of Common Ground
It's been a while since you heard from Bread and Stories...I think about this space daily, but free time has been hard to carve out from workaday life. As a freelancer with two separate areas of consulting, sometimes I have to keep many balls in the air
Bread and Stories
When Everything Was Possible
Reminiscing about his childhood dream of becoming an astronaut, my friend Larry said, "Back then, everything was possible." That wistful statement resonated far beyond its context. Back then—however far back you want to plant that bright flag of possibility in your or the nation's history—
Bread and Stories
Tea Biscuits and Sympathy
A chance to cheer on —and cheer up — a remarkable family.
Things Invisible to See
The Machine Stops
“Beware of first-hand ideas!”
Bread and Stories
In Defense of Gruel
It's such an odd little word: short but drawn out, comical yet faintly sinister.
Bread and Stories
Bittersweet Spring
Spring is time for feasts and festivals of renewal and rebirth—Easter, Passover, and Iran's Nowruz (literally "new day")—but this year it was hard to get into the spirit. I don't know if my friends in Iran are OK. Their internet is down,
Enlightenment
Squirrels in the Walls
Pondering the Enlightenment while defending the castle.
love
Perennial Blooms: on Love the Day after Valentine's Day
I was sitting here thinking about the kinds of love—how no matter what the movies try to sell us, nobody can make it on eros alone.
Valentine's Day
Tennis Matched: An Iranian Love Story
I told a version of these friends' love story for Valentine's Day two years ago. They are always the first people I think of when trouble boils over within Iran and between Iran and the U.S. It seems like a good time to retell their story...and to share Solmaz's world-famous walnut cookie recipe.
Jewish grandma
Waste Not, Want Not: Grandma Jessie's Secret Ingredient
Food and stories: in the case of my old Jewish relatives, it's impossible to separate the two.
Bread and Stories
Seeding the Story Vault
I think we tell and hear too few kinds of stories about ourselves...