Procrastadabbler

Eating simply doesn’t mean one has to eat poor quality food. A long long time ago a friend invited us to dinner. She was totally into mega complicated cooking. She asked what we liked and I said, simple foods. I don’t remember what she serve us but it was unremarkable.
30 years later I now have [...]

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An interesting meditation on naming the world in today’s New York Times. The author is a scientist and writes about taxonomy and how it is a dying practice – that so few of us can name things. The author ends by stating that by naming things, it changes things. It changes our relationship to things. [...]

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Lately I’ve been rethinking my career. I’m going to be 52 this summer. My two brothers are already retired. I have friends and other who are thinking of retiring. And here I am worrying about tenure and publishing and career building. Why am I working so hard? What am I trying to accomplish? What is [...]

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For the past year or so my stomach has been unhappy. In fact, my whole body has been experiencing just a general sense of malaise. I just chalked it up to being of a certain age. But I’ve been thinking about when certain symptoms appear and started tracking what’s going on. As a result I’m [...]

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I work alone, a lot. And I like it. I like the hours of solitude tapping away at my computer and visiting with my books. But there is a need for fresh ideas and to be able to bounce ideas around. And that’s where twitter and facebook come in. Those two tools are becoming more [...]

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