
My grandmother, Courtney Coolidge, died yesterday. Wislawa Szymborska, a Polish poet and Nobel laureat, died the day before. In grieving I find it appropriate to link the unrelated, as death will...
Sentence final
Follow up
I've been learning to reinhabit my room in my parents' house, having come here to spend Thanksgiving together for the first time in seven years. Coming back to the room you've grown up in is always...
Circling binary stars
The getting there
Summers, vacations
There are times when I wonder if I have some mild form of manic depression, because intensely creative days can be followed closely by days in which it's something of a struggle to remember that being...
WhinePassover 2011 has arrived, and with it comes the (now) yearly need to consider how the ideas of enslavement and liberation apply to my life. Over the last few months I've been drawn to an increasingly...
Is thinking kosher?In order to respond to a friend's query about the potential for hatching quails, I was compelled to research the ornithological distance between quails and partridges (presuming a relevant pop culture...
On pigeons and holes.I am not so jazzed right now. It may be because I've just gotten over the flu - there's nothing like being sick to make you feel truly pathetic - or it may be due to the fact that I really do have...
Can romantics be closet existentialists?The three things I would rather be doing right now than revising the hypothesis section of my thesis: 1. Working on my sister's birthday present (oooohh, mysterious!) 2. Reading Dune (i.e., cramming...
can you get a degree in ridiculous?Being in grad school has been one of the biggest motivations for being crafty. There's much more tangible joy in having made something that one can experience through the senses than in something that...
on making things