Voted!

Did that thing! If you're in NYC and want to find your polling place and look at a sample ballot, there's a great tool right here: findmypollsite.vote.nyc/ Local elections are…

Washing the dishes

I read THE MIRACLE OF MINDFULNESS by Thich Nhat Hanh this week. The whole book hit hard, but this passage in particular is stuck in my mind: Wash the dishes…

A small, strange personal project

Twenty eight years ago I sat on this sidewalk with a bunch of film school friends waiting for a movie. I remember that vividly as a tiny, glorious moment when…

The State of Social Media

When I was a graduate student at Oxford in the early 1990s, with no internet or cell phones, we communicated through a thing called pigeon post, where you dropped off…

Learn to say no

I drew this card as a reminder for myself a couple of years ago, and every few months I have to pull it out and stare at it for a…

Shredder

My home shredder overheats after ten minutes of use, displays a red light, and shuts down. Lot of respect for and much to learn from this enforcement of personal boundaries.