I believe everything I read. Well, okay, I actually believe everything I read can be a point of departure for other parts of my life and reaction to it. These stories often start with a chance meeting with someone's well-crafted words. But they never end there.
August 26, 2003
The waves were tiny our first day at the New Jersey shore and the water was surprisingly cold—that numbing cold you never get used to. We’d heard the Gulf Stream was unusually frigid this year. Our neighbor, Joan, had…
January 9, 2003
I was deep into Howard Rheingold’s new book, Smart Mobs, when I looked up and discovered that twelve other people in the subway car were reading it as well. As I raised my eyes, everyone lowered their books to give…
December 26, 2002
Pessimism By Any Other Name Is Not Pessimism
Was it visions of sugarplums that made my Christmas Eve day commute to work so sweet? Or was it President Bush’s “pardon” for all us Federal workers one half day of freedom for the upcoming holiday? No, as I…
September 11, 2002
The Remains of the Day: One Year Later
We are lucky enough to know that we are more than our losses. Jenna Jacobs, Wife of Ariel Jacobswho was killed at the WTC In Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel, Everything is Illuminated, Foer’s American protagonist, Jonathan, searches for the…
March 20, 2002
Face-to-Face for the First Time
Do I Know You? Inside each one of us, laid out like a grid, is a network of complementary, anatomical, psychological, hormonal, and linguistic structures, which in turn allow us to function—I’m paraphrasing Dr. Kai here—within a larger social system…
March 2, 2002
Parenthood: A Borderline Schizophrenic Experience
I am an actor. I act in morality plays. I am a street performer of sorts, displaying my lessons on the DC subway. I captivate some, yet most are captives. My daughter is both my unwitting foil and the object…
February 8, 2002
My ride into work this morning: I take the subway but it’s elevated much of the way in. It’s getting lighter earlier and my commute and the sunrise are almost in sync. I’d say by next Wednesday it should be…
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