A PLEA TO REPLACE VIOLENT DEADLINES

A PLEA TO REPLACE VIOLENT DEADLINES

The word deadline was first used in 1864, during the American Civil War. In that conflict, prisons were sometimes encircled with a ‘do not cross’ line and guards were told to shoot prisoners who would cross that line. Today we use the word abundantly and...
ON READING FICTION, FEARLESSLY

ON READING FICTION, FEARLESSLY

“Nothing is invented. Everything is invented.”                                         Susan Sontag (Loving Dostoyevsky) That music was not, I mused, what I would be listening to if I were she. She was driving an olive-green sports car that was just coming...
SAVING THE PLANET BY DOING LESS

SAVING THE PLANET BY DOING LESS

In our current world, a question that many of us have is how we can take effective climate or environmental action, without becoming overwhelmed or burned out ourselves. For gifted people, this may be a particularly challenging conundrum. With a hundred new ideas and...