There’s been a fair bit of opportunity outlining in our current mode of staying at home — we’re encouraged to improve our homes, our minds…

As a young person, I was fond of the myth of Galatea and Pygmalion. Pygmalion was a sculptor who was disenchanted with women. He became more and more reclusive in his studio, carving away at a stand of marble, softening it into form. The figure of a woman began to…

Janice Patricia Grosser Odom • February 3, 1937–June 21, 2018 — She loves a life of rhythm — a dance step, the sturdy echo of a tennis ball, ice clacking in a double-walled cup. Her way of talking is pleasant but honed — not quite so critical as a knife to cut through steak, but maybe a plastic dixie butter blade…

Don’t try to do both at once. — There are two kinds of creative meetings — the brainstorm and the critique. Don’t try to do both at once. The purpose of the brainstorm is to create a million possibilities. The purpose of the critique is to refine ideas and sculpt them. The Brainstorm The brainstorm works best using improv philosophy…

This is not about terrorism. This is about extreme weather. — 3,432. That’s the number of people killed on American soil as a result of terrorism from 1975 through 2015. 4,053. That’s the number of people killed in the United States in the same time range as a result of flooding alone (lightning, tornadoes, hurricanes, heat, cold, blizzards, rip currents, and…

The American fabric is stronger when it’s polychromatic. — As early as the Middle Ages, cultures understood the migration of birds across the seas. Through the 1700s and even into the mid 1800s, naturalists believed that swallows slept all winter in the beds of rivers, or flew on gifted wings to the moon. …

After biking down to march on Trenton yesterday, I loved seeing the pastiche of marches in parallel made all across the earth. This is a watercolor composite of all of us, marching together. Just as our voices and our words swam in a grand orchestra to say we are here and we are capable, I have the conviction that our actions in the days that come will make history say — they were here and they invested their breath and their sweat into a better future.