Category Archives: Introspection

I’m an introvert and like to think I have a rich inner life. It can be very hard to express deep thoughts in written form, but here’s my “old college try”.

Illusion of Choice

The real slight of hand that Western consumerist culture has pulled is giving us the illusion of choice…

Ants and Artisans

What makes an ant valuable? What gives an action worth? And then what is the difference between the two?

Grandpa and Spalding Gray

I was about to turn 20 years old. It was 1994 and my grandparents would be celebrating their golden wedding anniversary on my birthday. Flying to Orange, California, to visit them for a week would be a momentous occasion. Afterall, I was leaving my teens and they were entering their retirement.

The giving of thanks

How great this feast! This passage of cheer!
The dusk’s crisp dew outside is near,
While fire within hedges from fear.
These walls of love, of shelter endear.

The pattern of solitude

“Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.”Sir Francis Bacon

Internet Journals, Open Source Life, and Reality TV

“Taking something off the internet is like trying to remove pee from a public pool.”
Joe on Newsradio
“…our selves are merely the masks we wear in response to the social situations in which we find ourselves.”
Michael Lewis, Next
“In the future, everybody will be famous for 15 minutes.”
Andy Warhol

On Family

“The tie that binds.”
“The family that eats together, stays together.”

On Death

I attended a funeral today of a colleague. The details aren’t important. It’s enough to know that a fellow human being died in an untimely manner.

The Gravity of Self-Government

Part of my “Article of the Month” series in 2000

Balloons as Metaphor

Part of my “Article of the Month” series in 2000

Stolen Goods & Sine Waves

Part of my “Article of the Month” series in 2000

What Basketball, Movies, and Taxes have in Common

Part of my “Article of the Month” series in 2000

A Juror’s Journal

Part of my “Article of the Month” series in 2000