Years That Ask Questions

The thing about cob­webs, though, is their extreme flam­ma­bil­ity. At first it was exhil­a­rat­ing to watch those tire­some ques­tions go up in smoke. In their absence I was con­tent to roll along inside my joy bub­ble, sure it would pop soon enough. When it proved resilient, new ques­tions burned their way unbid­den into my head. Bet­ter ques­tions. The kind you have to answer, if you’re doing it right, every sec­ond of your life. […]

Gazing the Navel: Learn to Introspect in 3 Easy Steps

Explain­ing how to be more of an intro­vert feels a lot like explain­ing how to breathe air instead of vine­gar, but here it goes. […]

Sometimes I See Myself Fine…

Note: Let’s call this one “by request,” sort of. Some peo­ple with whom I’ve been cor­re­spond­ing wanted to know how my brain works and how it got that way. My response is an attempted abbre­vi­a­tion. For a fuller account, I refer you to the com­plete archives and all future posts of this very blog. […]