Month: February 2023

We’re constantly reading about how the internet is shocked! Worried! Stunned! In meltdown! Broken! How did it get to be so fragile? How is it contantly is such a fragile state? How does it recover day after day? Who is the internet? Who decides how it feels? Why do we talk about it as though…

I saw this scene the other day. Little dresses left at the tram stop. Some hung up against the rail, others in a heap on the ground. I don’t know the story of where they came from and why they were there, but the next day they were gone. Will anyone ever wear those little…

When I was just starting school, the onsite afterschool program at my elementary school was a Montessori program. When we went there, we said were “going to Montessori”. It was a great program and I have very fond memories of it. One of my earliest memories was sitting down at a table to trace shapes.…

I don’t know if anyone has said this before. Probably, but I said this to my son this morning when we were talking about the paradox of time travel and killing yourself in the future or the past. The basic thought behind it is that nobody knows when they’re going to die, so it’s basically…

Walking through the streets of Taipei, I looked up. There above us — above the shops, the traffic, the people in the street — there was a dragon. Ancient maps marked unexplored areas with dragons and monsters, but here I have found one.