June 2012
2 posts
June 1st. Headed to Las Vegas. Today’s forecast is 108° Sitting at JFK realizing that despite the cost and time it takes to get to this airport, it’s one of my favorite places.
May 2012
27 posts
Drugs: Northwestern University Students Now Free... →
The city of Evanston, Illinois, home of the Northwestern University Wildcats, is about to get decidedly more chill. Last night, the city council approved a measure that would essentially decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana;
How to teach patience? Be patient!
April 2012
26 posts
“Education by any name would smell as sweet, and maybe much sweeter, if it didn’t begin with a quest for knowledge at all but with a quest, as Zen would put it, for no-knowledge”
Buddy Glass, Franny & Zooey
Frogs legs
encouraged by honest team meeting
The morality against which I hope steel myself requires self-evaporation. Hard of vanity, insecurity and ambition, self melts away in the face of surrender, and all that remains of myself is an empty being, full of attention, sharp of compassionate morality.
In making his hero, and the nightmare he lives through, come so thoroughly alive, Adam Johnson has written a daring and remarkable novel, a novel that not only opens a frightening window on the mysterious kingdom of North Korea, but one that also excavates the very meaning of love and sacrifice.
nytimes on The Orphan Master’s Son