Monster time.

Vampires, Frankenstein's creature, or zombies? Which temporality makes it the Monster of the Year?

Begin (again)

I'm having a good time with a digital project I've been working on. It's requiring me to revisit my basic html skills and learn a lot of other things my life hitherto has not required. My happiest state is with the wind in a my face and a project in my sights. Nevertheless, it's going…

Begin

Despite significant shortcomings, the first vegan donut I ever made tasted more like what I wanted than any of the donuts I never made before.

The Horror

At the store last night I was trying to decide if I wanted donuts for dinner when I saw a cake decorated to look like a 3-D Frankenstein’s monster head. Green frosting for skin, black lines for stitches, happy cartoon eyes. Despite having spent recent hours voluntarily watching Halloween Baking Championship with one of my…

Synchronicity, a vignette

I grabbed a book from his bedside table—The Art of Stopping Time—which he had borrowed shortly after I bought it. I opened at random and began to read aloud, meaning to irritate him into action.

Artifacts, nostalgia

Marie Kondo's approach is kind, even tender, if her deliberate hand gestures and serene facial expressions are to be believed. It’s beautiful to watch and probably I should emulate it. My style of house clearing might be said to resemble forest management. Periodically, I unleash fires to clear out dead wood.

Time off.

Connections grow in this kind of time.

Forcing the bloom

It’s no joke, trying to transition from the sprint-like intensity of forcing the bloom to a lazy river coast. For a lot of us, easy ain’t easy. It takes a whole different range of skills. Yet if we’re playing a long game, it’s necessary.

Body time

We say we hack life in an attempt to eke more out of our finite time and energy. In many cases, this means we’re hacking our bodies. The danger of ignoring our body clocks is not always evident. Eventually, the resilience to abuse burns away. Bodies present complex arrangements of symptoms we may never recognize as having roots in our temporalities.

Culture, Clock, Toothbrush

I want them to learn how to float on the twin pontoons of event time and clock time. I want them to recognize the context and lean one way or the other as needed. To be productive and connected—the temporal secret, Levine says, to The Good Life.