Chris My wallet is not in the bag I brought upstairs yesterday. I had just looked in the car center console. Not there. Take a deep breath and retrace my steps. Ok, I used my credit card to pay for the lo mein take out. Then we had the fairly stressful fender bender (was cut off) … Read more
It’s 1993. Man has brought dinosaurs back from extinction. But acknowledging the dangers of introducing catastrophic disruptions to the order of nature if these creatures are to get into the wild, the scientists have genetically engineered only female dinosaurs to prevent procreation. However, the ever charming and eccentric chaos mathematician Dr. Ian Malcolm warns the … Read more
In Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince movie, Professor Slughorn has in his office an hourglass that measures the quality of conversation. When it is stimulating, the sand runs slowly. When Tom Riddle is shown in the memory asking Slughorn about Horcruxes, the sand in the hourglass stops completely. When was the last time … Read more
Are you friends with everyone in your town? Your state? Your country? Of course not. But when you travel abroad and you find someone from your country, your state, or *gasp* from your SAME FLIPPING TOWN… you instantly feel a connection. There is a sense of connectivity because you have something in common. You know … Read more
Four pairs of hands furiously dig to repair the trench. The waves keep coming. Some barely reach the base. Others tear chunks from the walls leaving the defense vulnerable. And every few minutes a big one engulfs the trench, encasing the four within. But the work continues. Digging and repairing the walls. Slowly, the walls … Read more
In the Goblet of Fire book, Hermoine forms the organization: Society for the Promotion of Elvish Welfare (S.P.E.W.) after witnessing the mistreatment of Winky. From her muggle point of view, it was clearly oppression and enslavement of an entire race of beings. Although Hermoine had the elves best interest at heart, her assumptions of what’s … Read more
There’s more and more pressure around us to put priority on the urgent. But there’s a big difference between doing what’s important and doing what’s urgent. The reality is that most “urgent” tasks really aren’t urgent. Most likely, it is a task that we classify as urgent because having it undone leaves an unsettling feeling … Read more
Has a friend or family member asked you a question about a topic you know about? Perhaps they know you’ve studied photography and are looking to start their journey into photography themselves. We may not feel qualified to be a teacher but the truth is, we are all students and we are all teachers. There … Read more
In his book The Dip, Seth Godin writes that rewards are heavily skewed for being #1. He gives the example of the distribution of the the top ice cream flavors. Vanilla at #1 accounts for almost 30% of sales while chocolate at #2 barely clears 7.5% Sure, some of you chocolate fans may be shaking … Read more
Asbury Park, July 31st, 2020. Live band. Open patio seating with a cool summer breeze. It was 7:30 so beach photos needed to happen quickly to capture the gorgeous purple sunset. Meghan darted onto the boardwalk and slid through the railing to get onto the beach. Holding up her dress, she ran across the sand, … Read more