My short attention span has allowed me a life of diversity in work and place.

Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness.

What protects you in this world from sadness and from the loss of an ability to do something? ... Work and love.

I said, 'Well, how much space do I have?' And they said, 'Well, you know, it's the Internet.'

We could speak about the meaning of life vis-a-vis non-consequential/deontological theories, apodictic transformation schemata, the incoherence of exemplification, metaphysical realism, Cartesian interactive dualism, revised non reductive dualism, postmodernist grammatology and dicey dichotomies. But we would still be left with Nietzsche's preposterous mustache which instills great anguish and skepticism in the brain, which leads (as it did in his case) to utter madness. I suggest we go to Paris instead.

Every Monday morning is new hope.

My dream is to walk around the world. A smallish backpack, all essentials neatly in place. A camera. A notebook. A traveling paint set. A hat. Good shoes. A nice pleated (green?) skirt for the occasional seaside hotel afternoon dance.