A pool is a great undertaking, and I always hated swimming anyway.
“The Thoughts of a Spiderweb” appeared in Quanta Magazine and was reprinted in The Atlantic. It presents research on how spiders adjust their behaviors when something adjusts in their webs, like some of the strands being snipped. In an experiment, the spiders began using the dangling web threads to catch insects and pull them up…
Read MoreI have heard it said about the Millennial generation that we don’t like the pain of life, and we live jumping from one high to the next. That’s nothing new. Each generation has its own way of distracting from the truth that life is hard. I’m guilty of this distraction. There are “small” things like finding…
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No, I’m not going vegan. I ate fried chicken last night! I also went to a bar on a weeknight for the first time since August 2015. The adventure felt like stepping into a familiar pair of sneakers – perfectly contoured to my footprint, while recognizing they went out of style 5 years ago. My rockstar status…
Read More“In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among…
Read MoreLet’s start with a vague statement: At one point in time, someone said it and I believed it: History repeats itself. We study it, so we avoid letting it do so. If all plots can only boil down to 7 different struggles, I’m assuming history will repeat itself regardless of what we study or choose…
Read More“It’s 13 degrees in Chicago today.” Mom sits in the recliner with her cup of coffee, catching up on the most important items on her agenda – including the weather in a city 800 miles away. Out the window, the January Virginia drizzle seems to make even the inside feel damp. My sister has no idea,…
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I don’t have photoshop and don’t know how to draw things on a computer. So here’s a pre-1999 style meme.
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Puddles of Thought 