My brother has been traveling more regularly around the country. Mostly these trips are within a few hours of his home, but a few take him a little further afield. And often they allow him to pop by our place for a night or two while he transits from one

So yeah, the back half of Freakonomics really didn’t land with me at all. The last two chapters, especially. The sumo and real estate pieces flowed with a sense of confidence, and the bit about using insider information as a means to dispel the KKK was fascinating. The student

As I suspected, I’m enjoying Freakonomics and moving through it somewhat rapidly. Yesterday a few passages especially caught my attention, so I made note to include them here for futher reflection. From the second chapter, entitled “How the Ku Klux Klan Is Like a Group of Real-Estate Agents,” we

This morning I figured I’d take a picture of my desk and share it here. And so that’s what I’m going to do. But there’s more! I’m thinking I’ll take a picture of my desk somewhat regularly and discuss what’s there, why it’

During the course of composing my last few posts I was circling around the idea of being creative enough to think of less shitty outcomes to our current social and political predicament. I speak here in terms of the States specifically by also somewhat generally for a good number of

Following quick on the heals of my last post, we got a report from our exchange student that someone she knows was indicating they expect to perish next year in the coming civil war. Granted this is a high school student spouting off in a lunch room, but it does

Pessimism is very much in vogue these days. There are elections across the globe this year that each herald significant import around idea and functioning democratic governance. This coming year also promises to be the warmest in recorded human history. War in the Ukraine and Israel grind on and may

Today is the last day of November. As I was driving home this evening I saw that our neighbors had left their various decorative Thanksgiving (and maybe Halloween) pumpkins on the corner of their driveway. Cherished and celebrated items days and weeks ago now sitting out as trash, destined for