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Category Archives: Thoughts

Beginnings and Ends

Friday, November 18, 2011

The other day, I happened upon a blog of a stranger struggling through a breakup, and her writing moved me. It wasn’t that her posts were impeccably crafted, or even particularly insightful, but that they were so nakedly honest; no riddles, no posturing, no defenses. She was so honest it was painful to read. A [...]

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Tales of Childhood

Saturday, August 27, 2011

  “I found it easy to fall into their pattern. We were all very serious and dignified gents taking the train to our offices in the City of London where each of us, so we thought, was engaged in high finance and other enormously important matters. Most of my companions wore hard bowler hats, and [...]

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Postcards & Paintings & Small White Cows

Saturday, August 27, 2011

There are three postcards sitting in my room right now that I have kept around me for the past several years for no more special reason but that I like them and they remind me of a pleasant evening I had in Berkeley with friends. I found them (the postcards, not my friends) in a [...]

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Lost in Time

Thursday, August 25, 2011

I flew to California for a short visit last Thursday night, then flew back to New York on Sunday. Going home was like easing slowly into a hot bath after a long, hard day in the cold. And while it was gradual, this relaxation of body and mind, there was no exasperation in the wait, [...]

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Conversations with Robots

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Something very odd happened to me at work yesterday – let me start from the beginning:

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