American Badlands. Photo credit: Guy Podjarny Driving through the Badlands of the West US, the teenagers listening to music on their...

Photo by Kai Oberhäuser on Unsplash It’s almost a cliché, the starving, struggling artist whose ideas are so outside the mainstream that...

Image by chrismetcalfTV on Flickr I’ve been working with The Artist’s Way for a few years now and recently completed a fourth round (I...

Image from Wix Media Podcasts are now considered a mainstream medium, and it is definitely the way many young people consume media. I’ve...

TL;DR: It’s okay, you don’t have to. In his book, How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read , the French literature professor and...

Photo by Kyle Head on Unsplash Watching the musical Cabaret with the inimitable Marisha Wallace as Sally Bowels and Damon Gould as the...

Image from Wix Media When I was fifteen or so, I was one of the music kids. I sang in a couple of bands that mostly included different...

TL;DR: A social novel masterpiece. Highly recommended. My mentor, Lucy, recommended this book to me; otherwise, I never would have heard...

Image by Jared Rice on Unsplash I've been trying something different with my Sundays lately. Instead of letting them become an extension...

Image: Erik Mclean on Unsplash I spent the first week of February not knowing what my next book would be about. Well, I knew the general...

Image generated by ChatGPT (it's a whole other post) My last four posts were written with my scientist hat on. Now that I have finished...

The Anxious Generation Book Review: Part IV Image from Wix Media I’ve tackled Haidt’s methodology issues  and the issues of healthy...

The Anxious Generation Book Review: Part III Photo by John Smith on Unsplash While Parts I and II critiqued Haidt's methodology  and...

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Part I: Introduction and Methodology I've been wrestling with Jonathan Haidt's The Anxious Generation  - agreeing with many points while...

This year, as in the last two, my challenge was to read 50 books. I read very slowly, especially in English. I added to the challenge...

Biggest Accomplishment My biggest accomplishment this year was finally finding a publisher. I’ve debated this a lot, and I’m pleased with...

Image from Wix Media I’ve been thinking a lot about systems lately. Several different conversations ended up being about them. I talked...

I don't feel like writing a blog post; every idea seems trite and contrived like it had been discussed ad nauseam. So, I thought I might...

I learned to read when I was about three years old. I read death notices. Back in the 1980s, when someone died, the family would print...