A sounding of the bell
The bell of the Cathedral began to toll, one, two, three… I could hear the birds chirping. It was a beautiful day, white rafts of clouds bumping against each other […]
Category Archives: Essays
sometimes I write about stuff
Everything Is Coming Up Roses
“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
Oh Cap’n! My Cap’n!
how can I deny you?
Universal Basic Income and the Economic Reset the World Needs Now
The 2008 financial crisis spurred a lot of people to think about money and the economy differently. Through different streams of events separated by ten years, Satoshi Nakamoto created Bitcoin — […]
How we live now
Journaling the coronavirus: Friday May 9, the end of the beginning of the coronavirus, the beginning of the end of life as we’ve known it? My dad turned 84 on […]
The death of the Easter bunny
I’ve heard the saying ‘Give me a child before age 5, I’ll give you a Catholic forever’ and it’s true Catholicism has a certain stickiness, something I’ve personally attributed to […]
“We wonder if we’ll see her again.”
in which L dies; the spring equinox arrives; Italy deaths peak
Running with ghosts
I was not the only one entranced by the weird crystal blueness of your eyes
Bluegrass and the Random Wonderful
I tend to avoid crowds successfully enough that I forget how being in one can so easily restore my optimism. One of the best things about San Francisco is Hardly […]
Birthday Apocalyptica
I saw it was your birthday so I bought this card and felt the need to write a note in it – something beyond Happy birthday. Like, how I saw on the news that the hills are on fire again and five more species have been declared extinct and another glacier melted.
