Time: Who knows where the time goes, asks one song. The days dwindle down, no time for the waiting game, goes another. I don’t have the time to explain that to you, says my wife, but it would only take the same amount of time as her telling me she hasn’t the time. Tick. Tock. […]
Greetings from Florida where Black Friday is still sprawling all around us and Thanksgiving is just a lingering bit of indigestion. I would like to tell you about an incredible experience from last week – Tuesday, November 15, to be precise: the first launch of NASA’s Artemis 1 rocket, the biggest rocket of all time, […]
Hurricane Nicole just went on its way from Florida, where I’m at my writing retreat working on a new book. I missed Ian a few weeks back, but this one was a doozy, waking my wife and me at 2:13AM as a 25-foot limb blew off a camphor tree in our backyard. Fortunately it mised […]
Friends, I’m being held captive in the dungeon of a decrepit castle by a pack of ghouls and goblins with no access to my computer, so no post this week. Thankfully, my voice-over-internet connection still allows me to send you this brief message. Have a treat-filled and scary Halloween! Jack
Are they always bad? We’ve just seen what a “perfect storm” can do in Florida: a whole lotta damage. Billions and billions of dollars worth of damage. If you look up the definition, a perfect storm occurs when there is an “unusually severe storm that results from a rare combination of meteorological phenomena.” This event, […]
I taught college courses for about twenty years – technology, management, creative writing, philosophy, English. Mostly undergraduate, but some MBA courses, too, and as I entered my classroom to begin teaching in one of those, I noticed there were like eight women and only one man. These were working, white-collar professionals. As we went around […]
Whence the Author Abandons his Computer for the Streets I’m a day late because yesterday was a really full and rewarding day with no time, either real or thoughtful, to write this blog. It was Arlington (Massachusetts) Town Day, held each fall as a sort-of contemporary version of the ancient human ritual in which a […]