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Blind Dates Grow Up

Monday, May 18, 2009

My husband and I are both … hmm … how shall I put this? Let’s go with finely tuned and move on.
We’re also products of different cultures. (I’ve often thought of charging admission to some of our entertaining conversations: the optimistic, anything-is-possible American (me) exchanging views with the pessimistic Cold-War-era German from West Berlin.)
To cut [...]

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Real Adventures with Imaginary Maps

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Oh, maps … oops. Sorry, I had to stop and wipe the drool off my keyboard. If you want to hypnotize me or calm me down, just shove a map in front of my face. My eyes will glaze, I’ll acquire a foolish grin, and my hand will reach involuntarily toward the map.
And if the [...]

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Book | Pattern Recognition

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

William Gibson is well-known for his science fiction writing, which I love, but my favourite book of his is a non-science fiction novel. Pattern Recognition’s heroine, Cayce Pollard, is highly sensitive, and that plus Gibson’s mentally chewy writing has made me a happy re-reader of this novel.
Cayce Pollard is highly sensitive in a very particular [...]

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Books | Tim Moore’s Travel Writing

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

British writer Tim Moore has charmed me thoroughly. He writes irreverent, utterly hilarious travel memoirs with the twist that he’s frequently and unabashedly incompetent at what he sets out to do.
My favourite Tim Moore adventure is told in French Revolutions, in which he hoists his unfit body onto a recently purchased bicycle and sets out [...]

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The Power of Creativity

Monday, August 11, 2008

“If you want to improve,
be content to be thought
foolish and stupid.”
~ Epictetus
Life’s a lab. We experiment, starting with a question (curiosity). Creativity is about risking mistakes in search of satisfying answers.
What we often mean when we say we’re not creative about something is that we’ve stopped trying. Even the most dazzling artist or engineer or [...]

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