Bangkok changed the way I think about cities. In its neon streets, crowded temples, and layered history, I discovered what urban texture truly means—and why some places stay with you long after you leave.
A reflection on my daughter turning 16 and how she continues to grow.
A year of change, road trips, shared meals, and learning to be present. From Yukon highways to meditation cushions, this is what 46 taught me about showing up.
Another year full of challenges, but my daughter survived.
I explain a new online identity inspired by Arabic calligraphy, language, design, and the search for a name that feels personal.
I describe how rediscovering Fraggle Rock pulled me out of a bad night and brought back childhood comfort through music and memory.
I reflect on restlessness, open-mindedness, and the feeling that I may always be searching for the next place to belong.
I announce my Macbeth adaptation project and explain how publishing the work online might help me keep moving through a creative roadblock.
I review Glory as a Civil War film about the 54th Massachusetts, human spirit, prejudice, and sacrifice on the battlefield.
I question the class and wealth behind America's founding ideals while thinking about democracy, power, and who gets represented.
I review City of God, reflecting on its violence, photography, cultural distance, and the pull of stories set far outside my own world.
I praise The Shield for its risk-taking, corruption, explosive writing, and darker view of policing compared with safer television dramas.
I describe losing my laptop charger for a few days and realizing how closely my routines, music, writing, and attention had fused with technology.
I think through obsession, necessity, cellphones, email, and how modern technology can start to feel less like a tool than a dependency.
I reflect on Changesurfer, transhumanism, FM-2030, and ideas about technology, relationships, and possible futures for humanity.
I wonder what history might have looked like if ordinary people had always been able to preserve their thoughts through blogs and media.
I share late-night thoughts on new music, iTunes downloads, Beck, Louis XIV, and the small thrill of finding songs through Pepsi caps.
I explore abstraction as a way of seeing, where art, beauty, language, and perception can either clarify or distort the world.
I wrestle with how we judge art and music, and whether calling something garbage says more about the work or about our own limits.