On May 1, 2015 we went to Keukenhof Gardens in the Netherlands and serendipity happened. It was Nurit’s birthday, the tulips were in bloom the sun was shining and there weren’t many people...Read More
The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi The Water Knife is a dystopian novel about a time in the near future when water wars are breaking out throughout the Western USA. The action is compelling and vivid...Read More
Cruft Noun: Anything that is left over, redundant and getting in the way. It is used particularly for useless, superfluous, or dysfunctional elements in computer software. Example: “There...Read More
We all dream of living in a tight knit community, a tribe or band, where we share everything and are “all in it together.” I call it the “socialist instinct.” But that is not our reali...Read More
The Attention Merchants by Tim Wu The Attention Merchants by Tim Wu is an excellent history of advertising from Posters in Paris through the newspapers, radio, television and finally the internet, soc...Read More
I have been researching why people say they travel. I’ve read some articles and I’ve asked a lot of people and it looks like there are lots of answers that intersect. In my circle there is...Read More