Now a newsletterer?

After twenty years of blogging, I have followed my fellow netizens to Substack, where I am publishing a weekly newsletter. You can subscribe via the form to the left and please drop me a note with a link to your newsletter.

Taking Notes

Thinking out loud in my corner of the internets.

Best Of

I’ve been writing here for over a decade now. In hindsight, only a handful of those posts are still worth reading.

Colophon

The tools that go into making this website.

Latest Essays

This is not up to my potential

This is not up to my potential

This past week an old high school classmate came into my work - "Miracles Cafe" a small independent seaside coffeehouse - and asked me the inevitable: "So ... what are you up to these days?" She said it with such cheerfulness that it was obvious it wasn't a question...

Why "El Oso?"

Why "El Oso?"

El Oso means "the bear" in Spanish. It unfortunately carries no sophisticated metaphor whatsoever and is not a literary allusion. Nor is it descriptive: I am a small, approachable white boy - about as fierce as Woody Allen. The story goes like this: My friend Jose and...

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