“The world conspires to make us blind to its own workings; our real work is to see the world again.” – Adam Gopnik (in his commentary on The Little Prince) The 2015/16 film The Little Prince, directed by Mark Osborne (Kung Fu Panda), is based on the 1943 novel by French writer Antoine deContinue reading “The Battles That Unite Us: Reflections on The Little Prince”
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Our Dreams Big and Small: Making sense of Giants and Spiders
“Remember that writing is translation, and the opus to be translated is yourself.” – E.B. White The late, great E.B. White (Happy Birthday) left behind a strong legacy of memorable stories and characters that have become something of a window in to the things he loved and the struggles he faced during his time onContinue reading “Our Dreams Big and Small: Making sense of Giants and Spiders”
Finding Me at the Intersection of 39 and 40
40 years. That’s a long time to be on this earth. My memory isn’t what it was even a few a years ago, but I can still remember being a young child and thinking, “man, 40 is so old!” Of course I didn’t understand what old was back then. I only knew a childhood thatContinue reading “Finding Me at the Intersection of 39 and 40”
The Stories of my Life 