Bushwhacking a Trail Home
People ask me all the time, “so…are you an artist?” And these days I say, “I am, because I live a creative life.” I used to stutter my way through…
The logic of choosing life
A sophomore from Duke called me this week and asked if she could interview me for a mock newspaper article she was writing for a public policy class. I’d met…
Breaking with the known
Staggering around Rome over the holidays, trying to find any cognitive through line, and then maybe a stable emotion or two in the aftermath of a 24-hour travel day, I…