‘New year, new you’? Try ‘new year, OLD you’
One of the January staples of my career while at Men’s Health magazine was “new year, new you.” It was…
Holiday Adventures with an AI Chatbot
So in my continuing experiments with artificial intelligence, I decided to ask Claude, the chatbot created by AI startup Anthropic,…
What Happened When I Asked ChatGPT to Write a Short Story About a Pepper
Like so many other writers/editors, I’ve been playing with ChatGPT. Generally, as I’ve asked it to do very purposeful tasks,…
Mother of Stars and Darkness
Let’s celebrate play, together!
I Want to Be a Little Old Man
The Practice of Practice
Let’s celebrate play, together!
6 Things I Learned from Wordle
‘New year, new you’? Try ‘new year, OLD you’
2 Very Different Parent-Daughter Movies
Mother of Stars and Darkness
Something from a few years back, getting out of my own tiny head …
2 Very Different Parent-Daughter Movies
We went to two movies this weekend. Surprisingly, they were both about parents and children. Other than that, they were…
6 Things I Learned from Wordle
Like a lot of people, I played Wordle a lot this past year (see below). It’s ingenious, both simple and…
Let’s celebrate play, together!
A while back I grabbed the website domain playful.li and launched a little project I called Playful, on the media…
The Most Amazing Person I’ve Ever Known Has Died
My family moved one town over, from Hazlet to Matawan, in 1973, when I was in first grade. It was…
Some ‘Mountain-Climbing’ Advice from Writer George Saunders
Listened to George Saunders’ first collection of short stories, Civilwarland in Bad Decline, this summer and all the things I enjoy…
6 Thoughts on Jerry Maguire, 26 Years Later
Virginia and I continued on a torrid pace of movie-watching, this time watching Jerry Maguire with friends on New Year’s Night. One…
My Not-So-Wild Wild Life
My minister asked us this morning to think about how we experienced nature early in our lives. Here goes. I…
Mouse Mind
We’ve had a mouse problem. It started with a text from Virginia on my Monday morning walk that said “Mouse!…
Meeting My Father-in-Law, Who Died in 1974
I was going through a photo album from 1968 made up of photos mostly taken by my father-in-law, and it…