Jul
11
I use both my countertop compost container and a bigger bucket to feed my compost pile out back.
Nov
29
This past July, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was part of a bipartisan group of senators who wrote up legislation requiring the United States to collect and publicize records about UFOs or UAPs (unidentified anomalous phenomena) as they’re now called. The legislation said information had to be disclosed to the American public immediately. The Schumer Amendment — as it’s known — mentioned “non-human intelligence” 22 times!Read More
Jul
25
I am going through something that’s hard to explain, but I think you may be going through it too. My worldview is crumbling and it feels like everything is zigzaggy (unmoored? untethered? uneasy? out of sorts? akimbo?).
Apr
23
Joanne Mae Adams in high school and Joanne Adams Curtis nowadays — top right photo by Taylor Yau
She used to fight her twin sister over who got to babysit at a friend’s house because they had something called “TV.” Once the kids were asleep, she would turn on the screen and just stare at the test pattern, “There was seldom anything on,” she said. “But it was so fascinating.”
Now she carries an iPhone that’s connected to her hearing aids. A call comes in and she hears it in her brain. Talk about fascinating!Read More
Notes from Down Under
After snapping this photo, I went up to the family who were wondering why I was taking pictures of a puddle on the beach. They loved the photo and I happily emailed it to them. A week later, this beach town was devastated by Cyclone Gabrielle.
The joke goes something like this, no matter where we go in New Zealand, chaos soon follows.
Once upon a time, in a city four or five hours from Bethlehem, an idea was born. The idea was, “Can Rodney write a story using Artificial Intelligence?”
The very next question was, “Should Rodney write a story using Artificial Intelligence?”
Apr
03
My garage is a liminal space.
When I sit in my car, I’m only temporarily there — whether coming or going. I generally don’t linger in that here/not here place. Today I lingered; today I sat in the driver’s seat and tried to allow in the feelings of spontaneous temporariness. Read More
Marriage — somewhere between Mars and Marrakesh. Photos by Wikimedia Commons.
In an old World Book Encyclopedia that was copyrighted the year Chris was born, I found — sandwiched between Marrakesh and Mars — a 1960’s definition of marriage.Read More
Jan
29
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me,
there lay an invincible summer.”― Albert Camus
Jul
18
The marquee is blank now at The Main Art Theatre.