A Good Girlfriend

A Good Girlfriend

I am going to London for three days starting September 17, and that is a miracle. It’s for no reason other than that I want to, and without any intention “to get better” or learn anything or make a contribution or be a more evolved person. I had been thinking about it...
“I Have No Idea…”

“I Have No Idea…”

From Derek Thompson’s recent Atlantic column, “Work in Progress”:   “Last week, I asked readers to tell me what people don’t get about their job. In an economy with thousands of occupations and hundreds of sectors, and where many people within the same large company...
Readjustment Never Stops

Readjustment Never Stops

Talking to an engineer today, I realized (again) how much I love engineers. I first realized it when I was creating a module for an engineering client years ago. They understood, in their bones, integrity as “whole and complete, unbroken, unimpaired, sound, in perfect...
Done With It!

Done With It!

Completion is good—real completion, not the concept, which I parrot often enough with a trail of real incompletions behind me. I just mis-spoke: There are no “real” incompletions; incompletions exist only in language. Using incompletion as a distinction, however, does...
Sticks and Stones

Sticks and Stones

While I’m always aware of the power of language, frequently—mostly—I’m aware of it conceptually. But now and again, it hits me upside the head and I see it in technicolor—a pervasive force to be reckoned with everywhere. Yesterday was such a time when a friend called...