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Pilgrim's Progress
A revisited offering on the Thanksgiving story.
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The Road to Clarity
Or, conducting a quest on a trickle charge.
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Far Out and Close In
Thoughts on the Overview Effect, the power of stories, and the value of a single life.
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Making and Unmaking a Golem
I’ve been making a golem. This screen is the lump of clay; now I’m trying to find the right words to breathe life into it. Last week I stumbled across a post on AI that got me thinking about golems again. Then I fell into Alice Hoffman’s
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The Weight of Civilization
Driving south with a carful of books.
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Rereading Charlotte's Web as Charlotte
Thoughts on International Women's Day
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The Sailmaker's Daughter
170 years ago, a teenage girl wrote about the contrast between fine weather and cruel times.
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Rivers, Seas, and Trees
On shaping and escaping the frame.
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Sheltering the Soul of the World
Reflections on Rosh Hashanah and a Holocaust Memoir
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Lovers and Luddites
Reading Charlotte Brontë’s novel Shirley on Labor Day
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Notes from the Bughouse
Or, that time a fascist collaborator held a poetry salon on the lawn of a mental hospital
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The Free and Fearless Lucy Stone
The story of a remarkable women's rights pioneer and her legacy.