In 1968 Fred Rogers published a children’s song about managing anger. The generation he wrote it for are all grown up now, but his timeless words can still reach them almost 50 years later. What do you do with the mad that you feel When you feel so mad you could bite? When the whole […]
Fred Rogers
Originally published in May 2017 in Blog
Skills pivot
Originally published in February 2016 in Blog
There are a lot of folks out there doing a skills pivot on their own time and dime. They’re saying yes to mastering data science and website design, and no to obscurity and unemployment. They’re plowing through long lists of recommended readings, and using Darwin’s Origin of the Species as the manual to justify preparing […]
A good read
Originally published in May 2015 in Blog
I don’t want Auden chopped up And sprinkled in my Twitter stream. Or van Gogh’s letters reimagined by A ginger beard mugging for YouTube. Keep Khayyam on the pages of the World War I chapbooks, Complete with my grandmother’s soft pencil annotations. What presence! And Yeats? If you get that fucking gadget anywhere near him […]
Hall of Fame
Originally published in March 2014 in Blog
Rabbit remembered
Originally published in March 2014 in Blog
Home
Originally published in December 2013 in Blog
After you lose your parents, You start to wonder if your family ever existed. That feeling of being part of a team alters, Then disintegrates over time. New alliances form. Continents and decades are crossed in a valiant search for that next Home. Siblings become more like old classmates, People you used to know because […]
Poem
Originally published in July 2013 in Blog
Do you want to be famous or good? This question is crossing more minds today. Including mine. Social media makes it too easy to get noticed for very little. Being good at something is a stubborn exercise. It’s also a long road, with winding turns you learn to drive right over. But you know you’re […]
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