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I was mistaken for Neil deGrasse Tyson once at the Museum of Modern Art. I had taken a friend there for lunch, and we decided that we’d eat at the fancy place on the ground floor because we’d just finished a huge project. 
I hadn’t made any reservations, but they sat us immediately at a very nice table, and then the head waiter came over and said, 
“It’s great to see you again. How is everythin...

Science. Fiction.

At my grade school, it was just reading, writing, and arithmetic for a while, and then science and social studies came along. 
Science focused on nature at first, eventually evolving into fun experiments like baking soda volcanos and lemon batteries. Social studies began as cartography: the class would look at giant maps requiring WWE strength for the teachers to pull down, like huge window sha...

ON TO CIVICS.

Back before she was here, when we thought about raising the baby, we felt we had a handle on the whole thing., or at least the general concept. We understood, for instance, that the child would be empty a great deal of the time, and our first job was to keep it filled with love and food (in that order).
To that list we added the arts, which we started with right from the very beginning with mus...

ART CLASS.

There aren’t many shows that I watch on television at the time that they are broadcast anymore.
Five percent of the reason for this is that I am the kind of person who leans into new technologies. I embraced streaming video, navigating its twists and eddys as an intrepid explorer might, until it isn’t just the technology that’s new, but the way I am able to live, work, and communicate. I embrac...

Live Studio Audience.

I wasn’t a particularly fussy baby, or so I’m told. My mother says that I was an easygoing roommate who didn’t make trouble: a good boy, who made a lot of racket at night.
My mother decided to comfort me with a radio in my crib. This worked - sort of. I did respond very well to music, but not the music she initially preferred… I only calmed totally down when one of the country music stations wa...

Saints Be Praised.

The 2024 Olympic mascots are Phrygian Caps that look like gnome hats…the ones you’d see if I suddenly said “Hey! Look up! Are those GNOMES across the street?” and you looked out your window and indeed saw mythical creatures only about a foot tall with little hats on. These would be the hats they were wearing.
As mascots, these hats are fully self-ambulatory, with eyes and mouths and so forth. T...

Spirit Animals.

We are halfway through summer.
There is a heat advisory here today.
The same sun we seek on the weekend seems disdainful toward us at work, either mocking us with a “come out and play” bright blue sky through our office windows, or broiling the world right at lunchtime when we try to grab a bite to eat.
We expect heat in summer, but it’s been extremely hot in some places, the sort of heat that ...

The Digital Harvest.

Last weekend, my daughter and I navigated four cancelled flights due to weather to visit my Mom in Kansas City, which was a very nice treat. I played handyman, dabbling in plumbing and carpentry and wiring and computer programming. My daughter built a new affordable slow fashion aesthetic through carefully curated thrift store trips, and a few extremely fortunate finds.
I was a bit of the third...

You Can't Go House Again.

If you attended American grade school you probably remember the blackboards, topped with long card stock banners depicting the alphabet in red letters as print and cursive, complete with little arrows explaining the best way to render each character. But just as ubiquitous was the bulletin board, usually filled with thematic collages depicting current holidays or collections of student work.
Th...

The Illustrious Middle

You would open the front door to find a party, with TV cameras and confetti, and a man holding a gigantic check with your name on it (for a lot of money). This was the dream in the ‘70s, your entire life enhanced beyond imagining, not because of a lottery ticket but the value rich and somewhat educational gift that you were smart enough to give your family - MAGAZINES.
Publisher’s Clearing Hous...

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