Just in Time

Just in Time

What’s in your closet that’s never seen the light of day? For years now, I have toted around this box from apartment to apartment to house marked, “Marilyn’s China.” I never opened it. Not once. My Aunt Marilyn was a legendary character...
#TryPod

#TryPod

If we have a conversation that lasts longer than, oh, 5 minutes, I will probably drop in a reference to a podcast I’ve recently been tearing through. Living alone as I do, and now that I’m driving all over the city and the South, going to various...
Retrospective Coherence

Retrospective Coherence

Lately, I’ve been doing a little light reading on chaos theory thanks to a conversation with one of my mentors, Doug Lipman. A concept within chaos theory is retrospective coherence, which is that, when complex systems are in a change state, just before they...

She Needed The Happy Ending

What was that ending?She called me up,accusing,as though I’d written it myself.I don’t understand it.Everyone’s been talking about this film for months,and I finally get to goand that’s how it ends?I sit there silently for a moment or two,not...

She Needed The Happy Ending

What was that ending? She called me up, accusing, as though I’d written it myself. I don’t understand it. Everyone’s been talking about this film for months, and I finally get to go and that’s how it ends? I sit there silently for a moment or...