This Is Just To Say

Image: Plums from the tree in our backyard…which made me think of William Carlos Williams…which prompted me to distill my thoughts this week into the same number of syllables he used.

I have inhaled
the news
that MAGA
is upset

not for
the schadenfreude
though that
is a balm

It turns out
they hate being duped—
we can
work with that

Power Struggles Are Uncomfortable—and Necessary

First a short story on the subject of power: My daughter Anna never liked sleep. From the moment she arrived, she resisted it with all her might. We spent Year One walking up and down the streets of Hong Kong, where she was born, and we spent her toddler years

Walk With Me?

As you all know from my calendar system, I live by certain rules. In addition to those I’ve already shared, I believe in a firm book-to-podcast ratio: at least one hour of book listening* for every three hours of podcast listening. Some of the most thoughtful people

You Don’t Have to Work with Your Hands to Be Authentic

My career in documentary filmmaking was extremely short-lived. I entered the New York offices of Globalvision on a Monday, thrilled to bits that I would be fetching coffee for people who had produced for Frontline. Before the week was out, on top of all the yelling, one of them

Grace Note

This week I’m staying in a Marriott across the street from Mother Emanuel, the Charleston church where nine parishioners were killed by a white supremacist on June 17, 2015. It’s hard to look at the steps without recalling the surveillance video that was shown on repeat after the

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Power Struggles Are Uncomfortable—and Necessary

Walk With Me?

You Don’t Have to Work with Your Hands to Be Authentic

Grace Note