Impact

A writer who elegantly connects the dots is critical to the important, often fraught, conversations of our time. Jill Lepore wrote a fantastic article in The New Yorker last week called “Are robots competing for your job?” She lays out a history of human fears about automation and the often-misguided worries that attend those fears. She fairly…

It’s like returning to your childhood home to find a shopping mall where you expected the little league field. Ski slopes should have snow on them in February, at least in the northern hemisphere. At least on Earth. I learned to ski at Meadows when I was 12. Sometimes you ski powder and sometimes you…

Words of Others In the introduction to Brave Enough, Cheryl Strayed says, “I think of quotes as mini-instruction manuals for the soul.”  Her book goes on to comprise well over one hundred pages of quotation from sources across her writing career. I have been a quote collector longer than I can remember. I return often to words that…

He seems too big to be my baby boy, yet still so small for someone who will one day be a man as big as I. Little hands fill tiny mittens. Growing feet squeeze into small blue boots. My hat. His gone missing in the rush to get out into the snow. His sister watches…